Typical Needs
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After reading Chapter One from ‘Becoming a Helper’ by Corey and Corey I learned different things about myself and my own personal needs. I learned about the nine different typical needs and how my own personal needs relate to them. This will help me to have a better understanding of the factors that have influenced me to join this program and the helping profession.
The Need To Make An Impact
Having a need to make a difference or have some sort of impact on someone’s life can be a life altering realization for some people and may push them towards a certain field of work or way of life. In my own experienced I realized that the one thing I want to do in life is help others and make an contribution no matter how large or small the outcome may be. I feel like I can relate to this need, I have always had a desire to want to show others that there are good and caring people all around them contrary to what they may believe. The feeling of knowing you positively impacted someone’s life can bee extremely self-rewarding.
The Need To Return A Favor
This need can be found in people who have in one point in time confided and turned to someone for help like a sibling, parent, friend, therapist, teacher, grandparent and so on. Because of the positive and influential impact that this person made in their lives they want to return the favor and become a helper. “Many therapists whom we know have acknowledged that they were greatly influenced by their experience in personal therapy
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to seek the education needed to become a therapist themselves.” (Corey, Corey, pg. 4) I don’t feel like this need directly relates to me, I have never had someone impact me in such a way that I felt that I needed to return the favor. By my own personal growth and experiences I found this field.
The Need To Care For Others
The need to care for others has influenced my life for many years. As Corey and Corey explain on page 4 and 5,
After reading Chapter One from ‘Becoming a Helper’ by Corey and Corey I learned different things about myself and my own personal needs. I learned about the nine different typical needs and how my own personal needs relate to them. This will help me to have a better understanding of the factors that have influenced me to join this program and the helping profession.
The Need To Make An Impact
Having a need to make a difference or have some sort of impact on someone’s life can be a life altering realization for some people and may push them towards a certain field of work or way of life. In my own experienced I realized that the one thing I want to do in life is help others and make an contribution no matter how large or small the outcome may be. I feel like I can relate to this need, I have always had a desire to want to show others that there are good and caring people all around them contrary to what they may believe. The feeling of knowing you positively impacted someone’s life can bee extremely self-rewarding.
The Need To Return A Favor
This need can be found in people who have in one point in time confided and turned to someone for help like a sibling, parent, friend, therapist, teacher, grandparent and so on. Because of the positive and influential impact that this person made in their lives they want to return the favor and become a helper. “Many therapists whom we know have acknowledged that they were greatly influenced by their experience in personal therapy
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to seek the education needed to become a therapist themselves.” (Corey, Corey, pg. 4) I don’t feel like this need directly relates to me, I have never had someone impact me in such a way that I felt that I needed to return the favor. By my own personal growth and experiences I found this field.
The Need To Care For Others
The need to care for others has influenced my life for many years. As Corey and Corey explain on page 4 and 5,