As a practicing social worker, I have sometimes found it difficult not to become absorbed in my own personal thoughts and beliefs and transfer them to my clients. This is what happened to Mindy during her relationship with Mr. Marshall. Spirituality and faith are often the guiding forces for many people, including myself, and while it is easy to separate my beliefs from my job as a social worker, it is very difficult. There is a policy that guides my practice with my agency and there are core values ​​that guide my interactions with clients and these are not congruent. For Mindy, the medical center/clinic's policies related to her job performance were to assist Mr. Marshall in planning his treatment and end-of-life care. This took time as Mindy's role as a social worker involved her synthesizing all the information given to her by Mr Marshall about her childhood, family situation, marital experience and her faith and assisting her to take all of this information and prepare a care plan. it was customer directed. In the midst of Mr. Marshall's illness, her core social work values ​​created dysfunction within her and she transitioned from the role of worker/client to that of friend/client. This is why I believe Mindy's competence would increase if she could receive further education