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Core Values Of The American Counseling Association (ACA)

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It is useful for Counselors to take inventories of themselves, their surroundings, their reactions, and their decisions in order to help critique their effectiveness. Critical thinking is essential for rational thought, and rational thinking helps minimize the effects of irrational, emotionally driven thinking, including biases and prejudice. Self-awareness is a critical component of self-examination; it allows one to grow beyond their existing limiting beliefs. Some of the core values of the American Counseling Association (ACA) include self-awareness and respect for others. Seeking to clarify one’s own understanding facilitates being present with a client. Growing in awareness helps counselors move from merely being an observant stranger to joining them as an empathic listener (American Counseling Association, 2014.)
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This self-awareness should include continuously examining their own development and unexamined personal trauma, as well as, personal biases, ideas, values, and beliefs related to culture, crisis, sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and suicide. Counselors should also practice self-awareness related to their own knowledge and level of competence in providing crisis services. Lastly, self-awareness should include monitoring their personal reactions to the trauma and crisis they are working with, changes to their own personal schema, and failures to address personal issues (Sartor, 2016). By engaging in self-awareness, the counselor can provide appropriate services to assist the client, rather than cause harm. Furthermore, practicing self-awareness and engaging in self-care activities can serve to protect crisis counselors from burnout, vicarious trauma, secondary trauma, and compassion fatigue (Sartor, 2016; Jackson-Cherry & Erford,

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