Whole-Person, Whole-Team Approach to Quality Improvement: Why Person-Centered Care Matters

Health care for the whole person.

Chaplains' Skills Support Whole-Person Care.

As medical practice slowly becomes more receptive to treating the mind and spirit along with the body, the team model of palliative care is rippling into other disciplines. Qualified chaplains and receptive physicians already are taking the “whole person” approach, and greater acceptance may lead to happier patients. Awareness in the United States is growing that spiritual care is an essential ...

Using a Whole Person Approach to Support People With Cancer

Introduction Improved models of care are needed to meet all the support needs of people with cancer, which encompass psychological, emotional, physical, spiritual, sexual, occupational, social and existential needs. The aim of this article is to (a) evaluate short- and long-term impacts of using a whole person approach to support people with cancer on the Living Well with the Impact of Cancer C...

Person-centered approaches 1 Person-centered Approaches to Personality

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...