Title: Values and Beliefs in Therapy
Headings: Values and Beliefs – Both Powerful, But What’s the Difference?
Values and Beliefs – Both Powerful, But What’s the Difference?
Why beliefs and values are so important in therapy
What are beliefs?
What are Values?
How are beliefs and values connected?
How are beliefs and values different?
Why do we need to know the difference between values and beliefs?
Are you ready to take charge of your beliefs and values?
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Content: They include things like kindness, compassion, and loyalty, as well as things like dishonesty and decadence. Values could be said to be in part formed by our personalities – siblings with the same upbringing can end up with different values. Values, too, can be influenced by our experiences, and are definitely influenced by the people around us as we grow up as well as the society and culture we live in. [Read about how important values are in our article, the Power of Personal Values ]. How are beliefs and values connected? Beliefs and values inform each other. For example, if you have a difficult childhood where love is not offered freely and you develop a core belief that ‘love must be earned’, then it’s possible you’ll develop a very strong value of trust to compensate for your anxiety that nobody loves you as is. How are beliefs and values different? Beliefs are more about our personal past, whereas values are more about how we filter our experiences through our personality to then commit to universal ideas of right and wrong. Whereas our set of beliefs might be unique, we will share values with many others (although sometimes we might not share the same values as those who are close to us).