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Self-Awareness – the ability to tune in to yourself, maintaining an ongoing knowledge of your emotional and cognitive responses to external events Self-Control – the ability to control how your express your feelings and thoughts in interaction with others Importance of Self-Awareness o A source of personal power o Source of insight into differences o A source of insight and control o A source of emotional connection with clients Goal of Self-Awareness  prevent practitioner attitudes and feelings from interfering with professional interactions Self-Awareness Errors o Errors of Omission  Interact with another person, but fail to pick up on important themes or information during interaction  Do not understand what the other person is attempting to communicate o Errors of Commission  You actively insert your own meaning into the situation or take actions that interfere with the helping relationship  You impose your beliefs or feelings onto the client situation To build an awareness of the beliefs and values that control your initial skill sets o 1. Understand how socialization forms your thinking and interactive habits  Sources of socialization  Institutions (church, education, media, social agency)  Family (parents, extended kin, family friends, family history)  Life Experiences (sports, clubs, talents, skills, successes, mistakes, peers, relationships)  Environment (cultural background, socioeconomics, neighborhood options) o Nature of our mental Socialization is shaped by two continua  Focus on how you process events (reliance on logical processes and thinking  emotional processes)  Focus on the interactive context of socialization Cognitive-Emotional habits form beliefs and codes for living Interpersonal habits form patterns of responding Four areas of experience affect how people react to any given situation o Action System  Interactive  Governs what you say and how you relate to other people  Behavioral  Controls how you act within a situation

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o Processing System  Internal (what we are thinking)  Interpretations, attributions, values, assumptions and beliefs  Feelings (immediate emotional response to the client situation & our experience of the client during the session)  Sadness, helplessness, disgust. Hopelessness  Several systems of thinking influence the interpretation of situations  Values  Meaning systems  Expectation systems How cultural elements likely influenced your parents o Discipline o Guidance o Accessibility o Nurturing Cultural Influences on Socialization Diagram o Loveable  Accessibility  Support structures  Available resources  Nurturance  Roles and Expectations  Individual versus collective o Limitable  Discipline  Abstract Mindedness o Level of concreteness in the culture  Systems of Sanction  Guidance  Values and Religion  Experience of Difference o The relationship between the cultural group and the dominant culture Family Genogram o Developed by Murray Bowen o First tool you will use to make sense of your family experiences Challenge for Digital Communicators o Slow and focuses search to develop self-awareness vs. surfing the web and managing social networking intrusions o Direction of the search o Nature of digital information A pattern of learning and skill development o Integration  Knowledge  Skill Application  Feedback  Skill adjustment 

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All about Knowledge o Must have knowledge that can be applied  Understand theories, research findings, and professional principles o Integrate your knowledge with your current skill foundation o Apply your knowledge o Gather feedback and evidence

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Professional behavior is guided by 3 related influences working together as a framework o Values o Ethics o Legal Duties Professional values are a precondition for successful enculturation into the profession Challenging to maintain professional relationship through digital communications o Informed consent o Boundaries History and scientific grounding of any profession will influence the value base  vale base influences the ethical guidelines that guide professional responses All helping professions take a position on… o Human dignity  Always put the welfare of the client first o Client determination  1. Clients must be able to make decisions about how they live  2. Clients should not be forced to change or enter service without their consent o Professional responsibility  All professions place the interests of the client as the top priority when providing service o Human conditions  Counseling  Work/school adjustment counseling, life adjustment counseling, mental health interventions  School or workplace assistance offices, community service agencies, private practice  Nursing  Physical care interventions, administer medications under supervision, mental health interventions  Hospitals, community health settings, mental health settings  Occupational Therapy  Disability adjustment counseling, adaptive skill development, mental health interventions  Hospitals, community health settings, mental health settings

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Psychology  Psychological assessment (test administration and interpretation), mental health interventions, specialty (industrial, social) consultation  Hospitals, schools, community health settings, criminal justice/prisons, private practice  Social Work  Family centered interventions (child protection, family preservation), social benefit interventions, mental health interventions  Hospitals, schools, community service agencies, criminal justice/prisons, mental health settings Every helping profession has a code of ethics that governs the behavior of professionals practicing within that discipline Professional values are abstract principles that shape the core beliefs of practitioners within each profession All helping professionals have ethical principles that ensure that clients are treated ina dignified manner Client Primacy o Promotion of Client’s best interests  Centrality of client’s interests  Conflicts of interest  Advocacy o Freedom from Harm  Least intrusive alternative  No harm Client Respect/Dignity o Freedom from Imposition  Hygiene standards  Family structures  Personal choices  Sexual orientation/identity o Client Beliefs  Religious preferences  Values  Political Ideologies o Client Language  Language sue  Grammatical errors  Expressiveness Client Rights o Effective and Accessible Service  Effective services

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 Available services o Non-intrusion o Confidentiality o Human rights Ethical Principles and Client Determination o Informed Consent o The Right to Challenge Two common features in the codes of ethics… o Professional Competence  Clients should be able to assume that a practitioner is able to provide the services as promised by the agency o Professional Comportment  Must interact appropriately with other professional groups and community members Most ignored principles of ethical codes  Obligation to contribute to professional knowledge and our obligation to challenge social conditions We will continually learn from our experience, integrate new knowledge, and eventually start to share our learning with other professionals Expected to contribute to the welfare of society o Assumption of competence, informed consent, least intrusive intervention o Legal duties of helping professionals o Duty to report o Duty to warn Weighing Different Ethical Principles o 1. Life and Death o 2. Abuse and violation o 3. Human rights o 4. Restricted freedom o 5. Maximum benefit

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