Mental Health Counselor Reflection

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To be honest, I believe my I have well developed strengths in a lot of the characteristics in the book. Without getting to much into it and staying on track with the question, I moved around a lot growing up and learned a lot about how to keep my own moral views also while adjusting to different surroundings, cultures, beliefs, etc. I believe having a self-schema is extremely important to consider a counselor's own health and wellbeing. however, it is also important for a counselor to be able to not push their own self schema onto an individual. Everyone has their own way of view life, or their own lens to see the world through.
I believe i have a good worldview as well. Throughout high school and college, I have always been one to "be the shoulder to cry on" or be the person to vent to because I do not judge anything the person says, nor do i put my own self schema into it. I mainly interpret to confirm with those who do vent to me of what they are saying and meaning to make sure I understand their point of view. I do not necessarily agree with all of them. But I do seek to understand them.
Unfortunately, however, I still feel as though I need work on separating curiosity and a desire to help.
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I do agree with them all, however, I believe they may need to be reworded differently such as, when Donnelly, Eburne, and Kittleson mentioned about having a positive outlook, I believe it should be an understanding outlook. When you have a soldier who is mourning the loss of their whole entire squad, I don't think they'll want a therapist saying "there there at least your alive so that's something." I think it'd be more important to say a therapist needs to have an understanding outlook on life and even though there might not be any positive outlook in a situation, and the individual is probably going to want to be sad. It is the therapists job to help the individual mourn in a non-destructive