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Imposing values are values that affect and impact you and client, these values can be done actively or passively, it is basically using some type of force or manipulation or pressure for another to adopt or follow the same values as you, and most therapists do this without noticing it. What is important is to try not to impose your values on your client because the more you impose your values the more frustrated the client gets and the more confusion both of you have because you both want your set of values to outweigh the other . As a therapist it can be so easy to ignore where that person is coming from and why they feeling the way they do, imposing your values will make the client feel like you do not care about them …show more content…

Our cultural values can be influenced by family history; how your family sees and approaches certain situations, life experiences; what happened to change who you use to be before you have that value of belief now , religion; how your religion makes you behave or approach certain situations, education; how has school shaped who you are now, political climate and Bias and prejudice. In (Gerald Corey, 2015) mentions that therapist need to understand that may differences exist within the same cultural group than between different cultural groups, and they need to be intraculturally sensitive as well as multiculturally sensitive towards clients. Also (Gerald Corey, 2015) mentions that special attention must be given to how socioeconomic factors, sexism, heterosexism, and racism influence a client’s …show more content…

I have been in a similar situations with friends whereby they never showed loyalty towards our friendship and went ahead and did me wrong behind my back, so I feel meeting a client in that situation would make me feel the rage of what happened to me and I would judge the client and probable impose my honesty value and loyalty towards them.
Dealing with my personal values in terms of ethical dilemmas I will be using the decision making model to address how I intend on dealing with my values mentioned above which are honesty, spirituality and loyalty in a therapy session. Even though not all can apply to my values, I have highlighted those that fit with my scenarios
1. Identifying the problem or dilemma Handling scenario 1 with honesty I would have to question what insights does

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