A Person-Centered Approach to Clinical Practice

Person-centered clinical practice

In clinical care consultations are often doctor-centered. Patients are not seen as persons, but as cases or diagnoses. Doctors focus on symptoms and lack attention for context. The doctor does most of the talking and takes decisions on diagnosis and treatment, without shared responsibility and decision-making, and without a therapeutic alliance thus contributing to low compliance. And when meet...

A person-centered approach to moral judgment.

Both normative theories of ethics in philosophy and contemporary models of moral judgment in psychology have focused almost exclusively on the permissibility of acts, in particular whether acts should be judged on the basis of their material outcomes (consequentialist ethics) or on the basis of rules, duties, and obligations (deontological ethics). However, a longstanding third perspective on m...

A Patient-Centered Approach to Clinical Practice Guidelines in Otolaryngology.

Patient education is used to engage patients in their own health care and is relevant in most clinical situations. Shared decision making (SDM) is used to engage patients when a choice needs to be made about a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure and the medical evidence does not indicate which choice is best. American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) clinical practice g...

A Person-Centered, Longitudinal Approach to Sexual Victimization

Objective: Little research has drawn attention to distinct patterns of sexual victimization across time, although previous findings strongly indicate heterogeneity. Using longitudinal data, we tested a series of latent class growth models in an attempt to find meaningful patterns of sexual victimization frequency among female college students. Method: A sample of women (n = 1,580) answered ques...

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