Problem
You are a human service professional working in an elementary school providing psychoeducational workshops for a group of 6th grade girls. One of the girls has been referred to you because of absences and tardiness, and because it appears she has been cutting. The student did not show up for the first three appointments but finally kept the fourth appointment. She is tentative and withdrawn. She asks if she can trust you to tell you a secret and asks that you not tell anyone else. You realize that her help-seeking is in a very tentative, fragile state, and you would like to increase her trust with you and the likelihood that she will engage in services. You explain confidentiality to her, and she discloses that she is being sexually abused by her stepfather. She tells you that if you tell anyone, she will get beaten by her stepfather as he has threatened to do this. What personal values or self-bias could potentially impact your ability to work effectively with this child and family?