Sexual Attitude Reassessment · Reflective Exercise
Where a Value Goes
Holding a strong moral or religious conviction is not a clinical problem and is not something to be fixed. What it is permitted to do is the subject here.
The case this is built on
A clinician is working with a client who is doing well. Over several sessions the clinician returns to the same question, and the client answers it the same way each time.
You will be asked about your own reactions before you are shown the case. That order is deliberate.
Estimated time to complete this exercise: 25 minutes
1Your values
2The case
3Applied
4Where it goes
5The client
6Close
Before you begin
How this one works
There are no correct answers and nothing is graded. Nothing you type leaves your browser, there is no submission, and reloading the page discards it. You can copy your own responses at the end.
This exercise concerns moral and religious values, and it does not ask you to revise yours. Some of the most careful clinicians in this field hold values that differ sharply from their clients’ and work well anyway. The exercise is about how they manage it.
You will be asked about your own reactions before you are shown the case. That order is deliberate and the exercise will not work in reverse.
Holding a strong value is not a clinical problem and is not something to be fixed. What the value is permitted to do is the subject here.
Answer honestly rather than professionally. A sanitised inventory produces a sanitised exercise, and you are the only person who will read it.
References
- Cassidy, T., & Wong, G. (2018). Consensually nonmonogamous clients and the impact of mononormativity in therapy. Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 52(2), 119–139. https://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/article/view/61124