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A 5 page research paper that addresses the personal feeling and spirituality that counselors bring to their work, while identifying elements of practice as outlined by Keith-Lucas in his book Giving and Taking Help (1994). Bibliography lists 2 source.
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to help another experiences "joy and vitality, which sustains the capacity to care" (p. 241). As a professional social work began due to concerns for "charity and justice," that were
grounded in the Christine doctrine of loving ones neighbor (Faver, 2004). To this day, religion and spirituality continue to play a significant role in motivating individuals to enter the field
of social work. Social research shows that by caring for others, the social worker expands personal consciousness in two principal ways (Faver, 2004). First of all, it is through
love or caring for others that human beings can truly come to know each other as subjects rather than as objects (Faver, 2004). Furthermore it is through care or love
that social workers are able to broaden their vision to include perspectives that "expand, challenge or correct our views of reality" (Faver, 2004), p. 241). As this illustrates, the spirituality
that social workers bring to the helping process both informs and motivates the interaction between the social worker helper and those whom that individual is trying to help. Keith-Lucas
(1994) defines "help" as one person offering "another something in such a way that the latter can use it to do something about a problem that he is unable to
do alone" (p. 1). Keith-Lucas differentiates between what the helper does, which is an action, and to what use the person being helped employs such help. The helper offers action,
words, "something," to the helped person or group in a manner that best facilitates use, but precisely what that "use" might be, in most cases, cannot be predicted (Keith-Lucas, 1994).
Keith-Lucas (1994) points out that when helping attempts fail, the first reaction of the helper is to blame the individual that was being helped, referring to the client as
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