Values and beliefs.
Address your understanding of how your values and beliefs reflect social location, power and privilege, and experiences of social inclusion/exclusion.
Without writing a detailed autobiography, think about how do you know who you are? How do the key messages about class, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation get delivered?
Reflect upon the degree to which issues such as class, gender, race, and ethnicity, or sexual orientation were openly discussed in your home.
Reflect upon what this level of discussion might signify and how it impacted your development of a sense of self. It may also be helpful to think about whether there was a particular moment in which these issues became more visible (i.e., openly discussed) within your family.
Describe any contradicting parts of your self-assessment based on the information above, and your way of dealing with them.
Reflect upon the ways the aspects of yourself bias your perspectives toward people who are different from you.
Describe ways you may monitor your actions toward others to ensure that bias does not negatively affect your clients.