Human Services

Human Services




Personal Skills and Characteristics Summation

For a professional that helps people, there are seven characteristics they should have to be an effective helper. They include, empathy, genuineness, acceptance, the desire to help, a balance between subjectivness and objectiveness, self-awareness, and patience.

Empathy is being able to have compassion for some one else other than your self. Meaning you try to understand a clients feelings, and life. Empathy is very important to have because if you do not have it, your client will not feel comfortable around you and they will not truly express their feelings to you. It helps build a relationship between you and your clients. Do I have empathy? I do to a certain point. For me it all depends on the situation the client is in. If I had to rate my self from one through ten, I would give my self a six. Usually when I have empathy for a person, I show them that I do care and I try to give advice to make them fee...