Value Objectivity
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Value Objectivity
Danyell Brown
Grand Canyon University: PCN-505
March 1, 2016
Value Objectivity
Being value-objective about debatable subjects presented by clients is not only important but essential to the therapeutic process. Sometimes counselors will find it difficult to be value objective when it comes to child abuse, abortion, suicide, adultery, drug use, domestic violence, etc.) because their values conflict with their client’s. If a counselor is unable to remain unbiased regarding controversial issues, it is important that the counselor make it their problem not the client’s (Cory, 2010). The best thing the counselor can do is to inform their client of what issues they are unable to be unbiased towards. The responsibility of the counselor is to provide their clients with the best treatment and interventions not to approve or disapprove of their views and values. They have a responsibility to help them discover and make clear their principles and apply them to resolving their issues. The only exceptions to this are values and behaviors that violate the law (Corey, 2010).
Counselors should be cautious when being transparent and self-disclosing and should only be done for the purpose of helping the client, and not to meet the needs of the therapist. Transparency is an important factor in therapy because when counselors are open about their personal values this allows clients to become transparent about their values. This transparency helps in the therapeutic process that it helps to build trust and rapport with clients. “How can we as therapists expect transparency in clients when we ourselves are not open and real in the relationship?” (Truax et al 1965).
Counselors expressing their values to clients can be healthy for the therapeutic process but sometimes lines can become blurred and therapists unknowingly impose their values onto the client. For example, a couple discussing marital betraying because the husband has had several affairs and...
Danyell Brown
Grand Canyon University: PCN-505
March 1, 2016
Value Objectivity
Being value-objective about debatable subjects presented by clients is not only important but essential to the therapeutic process. Sometimes counselors will find it difficult to be value objective when it comes to child abuse, abortion, suicide, adultery, drug use, domestic violence, etc.) because their values conflict with their client’s. If a counselor is unable to remain unbiased regarding controversial issues, it is important that the counselor make it their problem not the client’s (Cory, 2010). The best thing the counselor can do is to inform their client of what issues they are unable to be unbiased towards. The responsibility of the counselor is to provide their clients with the best treatment and interventions not to approve or disapprove of their views and values. They have a responsibility to help them discover and make clear their principles and apply them to resolving their issues. The only exceptions to this are values and behaviors that violate the law (Corey, 2010).
Counselors should be cautious when being transparent and self-disclosing and should only be done for the purpose of helping the client, and not to meet the needs of the therapist. Transparency is an important factor in therapy because when counselors are open about their personal values this allows clients to become transparent about their values. This transparency helps in the therapeutic process that it helps to build trust and rapport with clients. “How can we as therapists expect transparency in clients when we ourselves are not open and real in the relationship?” (Truax et al 1965).
Counselors expressing their values to clients can be healthy for the therapeutic process but sometimes lines can become blurred and therapists unknowingly impose their values onto the client. For example, a couple discussing marital betraying because the husband has had several affairs and...