Human Service Interview

Clinical Gestalt

Agnes Landford
BSHS 322

My Beliefs, Values and Clinical Gestalt Paper
Communication Skills for the Human Services Professional
BSHS 321
TY LITTLE
May 29, 2011
According to (Manip, 2009). “Gestalt is commonly used during healthcare decision-making, namely because this method allows a quick global interpretation within seconds of data collection. This process is considered “top down”; i.e., clinicians organize data in a manner that creates the most coherent, seamless, perception possible. Germane to this assumption are the number of Gestalt perceptual principles which assist the decision-maker in collating perceptual inputs. A modern version that uses related associative principles is the classification of disorders into common diagnostic or prescriptive traits.”
In this field of Human services management, education, respect, reliability, and personal growth are part of what is require of me. It requires thorough evaluation of my beliefs, values, and how I reevaluate my own personal growth.   It does require dignity, honesty, ethics, and how to help others.  
The   important requirements of being a human service worker is to be aware of   how to use body, language, like nonverbal and verbal and the tone of   your voice and how it will be perceived by others. I should know my limitations and recognize situations that I think may not be effective.
The reason or purpose for human service worker is to assist the client, and as a Human service professional I am here to help people in every states community with different problems, and one of the requirements, is awareness which, leads to a clinician acquiring skills to implement, planning, intervention, and evaluation.
In exercise 1.4, I was asked to identify my personal value and beliefs.  I found it hard to write such personal things down on paper,   it took a great deal of self-evaluation and thought.   I was raised in a strict and traditional Christian family.   I was...