Clinical Gestalt with Individuals and Systems

Clinical Gestalt with Individuals and Systems



Clinical Gestalt with Individuals and Systems

Introduction

The Human Services field requires education, a thorough evaluation of your values and beliefs, and ongoing reevaluation of your own issues and personal growth. It also requires honesty, dignity, ethics, and a willingness to help others. One of the most important requirements of being a human resource worker is to be aware of your own feelings and beliefs. You also have to be aware of how your body language, nonverbal and verbal cues and tone of voice are perceived by others. To be an effective human service worker you must be able to set your own feelings and beliefs aside and focus on the client's. Your focus is going to be on the clients' values, feelings and goals (Mintz, 1983). You also must be able to plan, implement, and evaluate interventions. You have to be aware of your limitations and to be able to recognize situations in which you may not be effective. The main purpose of human services is to assist the client in their process of self discovery and together deciding upon the best methods to go about changing the behaviors that are crippling them (Huckabay, 1992).

Analysis

I attempted to identify my own personal value and beliefs. It is very hard to list such a personal thing on a piece of paper. It takes a great deal of thought and self-evaluation. I belief that one of the aims of Clinical Gestalt is to help clients become aware of their present experience. When clients speak about their past, the therapist may ask them to reenact it as though they were living it now. The interesting concept of Clinical Gestalt, which is unique from other therapies, is that individuals have self-regulation. Therapy aims not ...