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: Beliefs are assumptions, and assumptions can be challenged. Values are more an integral part of who we are. Values can, however, be ‘changed’ in the sense that many of us lead our lives from values that aren’t even ours. Instead they are ‘borrowed’ from people around us – parents, peers, or partners. So we can identify this problem and ‘change’ to our own values that suit us better. And values can definitely evolve as we do. For example, if you have the value of success, that might look like ambition when you are young. When you are older, that same value might attach to a sense of learned compassion and become justice – success not just for yourself, but for others. Why do we need to know the difference between values and beliefs? Mistaking a value for a belief can mean you are trying to change something that probably won’t change, and vice versa – deciding a belief is a value can mean you don’t attempt to change something it could benefit you to transform.