A person who has always wished to care for "special children" adopts a biracial child and another child who has spina bifida. What is the highest step of the value clarification process that this person has achieved?
a. Doing something with the choice in a pattern of life
b. Choosing freely from alternatives
c. Being happy with the choice
d. Affirming the choice publicly
A
The highest level of value clarification is acting in a pattern. Adopting two "special children" is affirmation of a pattern. Acting follows choosing and prizing in the sequence of value clarification.
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