Which of the following statements accurately describes the value discrepancies between helping professionals and bureaucrats?
A. Helping professionals believe that the primary goal of bureaucracies should be to survive, while the actual goal of bureaucracies is to serve clients.
B. Helping professionals resist change and are most efficient when no one is "rocking the boat," while bureaucracies strive to change to meet the emerging needs of clients.
C. Helping professionals believe bureaucracies should personalize services to each client and convey to them that "you count as a person," while bureaucracies are highly depersonalized systems in which clients (and employees) do not count as persons but are only tiny components of a mammoth system.
D. Helping professionals believe that power should be held by top executives, while in bureaucracies the clients have considerable power in the system.
Answer: C
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