Session 9: Values Clarification and Examining Attitudes

This session discusses how providers’ opinions, values, and attitudes can affect, positively or negatively, their relationship with clients and the services provided.

By the end of this unit, participants will:

• Be able to comprehend how providers’ opinions, values, and attitudes can affect, positively or negatively, their relationship with their clients.
• Become aware of their own beliefs, values, and attitudes to avoid imposing them on the client or obstructing communication.

Total: 70 minutes (1 hour, 10 minutes)

• 10 minutes: Participant Presentation: Day 2 Recap
• 60 minutes: Values Clarification Activity

• Print, download, and gather materials
• Make a flip chart for definitions of values and values clarification
• Review and update list of value statements for the local context. Have approximately 10-15 value statements (consider local values and norms) ready in advance
• Make two flip charts that state the following:
  • AGREE
  • DISAGREE

• Refer to the Facilitator's Guide for the Detailed Session Guide and list of materials needed for this unit
• Participant Workbook