Person-centred care is a way of thinking and doing things that sees the people using health and social services as equal partners in planning, developing and monitoring care to make sure it meets their needs. This means putting people and their families at the centre of decisions and seeing them as experts, working alongside professionals to get the best outcome. Reference; https://healthinnovationnetwork.com/system/ckeditor_assets/attachment/41/what_is_person-centred_care_and_why_is_it_important.pdf. The core values that underpin person centred care in health and social care are as follows; • Promoting effective communication and relationships • Maintaining confidentiality of information • Promoting and supporting individual’s rights to dignity, independence, empowerment, choice, and safety. • Rights and responsibilities • Respect.…
I agree with your statement of embracing the philosophy that views each client and situation as individual and unique. I have several friends who had negative counseling experiences during their childhood. They mentioned the counselor not relating or understanding them. Our professional philosophy should include positive reinforcement.…
Ethical guidelines are important for all practitioners of the healing art, because there is the potential for a helping professional to harm a client through inappropriate advice, humiliation, emotionally arousing techniques, i.e., confrontation, and communicating subtle messages of contempt because of not understanding our clients culture, religion, beliefs, or family (Young, 2013, p. 16). Upon reflecting on the ethical guidelines that all helping professionals pledge to follow, primum non nocere, a Latin phrase meaning first do no harm strongly resonates with me. The commitment of a helping professional primarily to do no harm inevitably includes adhering to the following ethical standards: 1) Informing the course instructor or our supervisor at once if a client or fellow student suggests suicide or intent to harm others. 2) Only practice the therapeutic…
The client population which may be the most challenging for me to work with is differentiated by culture. Each culture has its own values and beliefs that they abide by. Counselors should be considered their clients traditions, shared values, customs, norms, history and institutions of a group of people. Counselors should be aware of other cultures understanding and concept of how they interpret their environment. It’s best to understand other cultures to see how their world is and how they function within the world.…
The two key pitfalls of assumption are assuming that you know why they are there, for example, because they overeat or have a specific fear or phobia, and of stereotyping a client in some way. I tis important to listen carefully to a client and treat them with respect, taking their concerns and worries seriously, whatever they are. Often clients come thinking they know what they need and the therapist recognizes that the root of the issue is related to a past event or a negative thought pattern that the clients has not really recognised themselves. Keeping an open mind is essential, as is taking a non-judgemental approach and avoiding any presuppositions about what the issue might be.…
With duties commonly encroaching upon personal life quality, carers are one service user group who would significantly benefit from informative information explaining rights. Aldbridge and Hughes (2016) report 1.2 million informal carers experience poverty because the demands of caring restricts working. Social and emotional support are key to overcoming pressures as stronger caring situations, like devoted and supportive mother/daughter, usually help each other achieve better outcomes (Reblin and Uchino, 2008). On the other hand, strained relationships with mixed emotions potentially fosters substandard caring and imposed risk towards vulnerable adults, who if blamed for a predicament, fall upon the mercy of carers (ADASS, 2011). Resentful…
This formulation centers on Carl Roger’s Humanistic Theory otherwise known as the Person-Centered approach. While most psychotherapy models embrace “genuineness, warmth, and kindness”, these tenets are the central component of Person-Centered psychotherapy. Compared to it’s psychodynamic predecessors, Person-Centered Therapy deemphasizes the significance of early relationships, particularly those during infancy. Conversely, there is a greater focus on the present, “here and now experience”, and the patient’s natural skills, strengths, and abilities. Emphasizing understanding and caring rather than diagnosis, interpretation, advice, and persuasion, Rogers believed that therapeutic change could take place if minimal conditions are met (Sharpf,…
There are many ways of understanding and dealing with clients, but there is a line that does not need to be crossed when handling them. There needs to be a person on the other side trying to help the situation the client may have gotten themselves into instead of judging and disrespecting the client. Everyone needs to be supportive and understanding when dealing with people that are already afraid to come forward and ask for help from professionals. I believe that for anywhere, communication is important and with that makes people feel important and welcome into anywhere they walk into. This creates a roadblock between the clinician and client and this is not the way to start the relationship because the client might shut down and not want the help from you anymore which is not what is wanted.…
It’s Hard to Just Be Nice to People There are several proficient approaches to a helping relationship because clients respond differently to the different therapeutic styles and ultimately, there is not one therapeutic approach that is generalizable to the entire population. However, after learning the aspects of different approaches to therapy, there are common aspects of the helping process that are widespread across multiple therapy groups. For instance, unconditional positive regard, a concept developed by humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers, refers to a “warm acceptance of the client’s experience without conditions” (Geroski). This is an essential aspect of humanistic therapy, but can be applied to numerous approaches to therapy.…
Strengths Regardless of what theoretical approach we use, unless we have a strong therapeutic alliance with our client therapy is not likely to be successful (Laureate Education, Inc., 2012). The first time that you are in contact with the client the helping relationship begins. I believe that a counselor should be ready to start helping the client at that very second. The helping relationship is the cornerstone on which all effective helping rest (Capuzzi et al., 2016).…
My Preferred Therapeutic Goals Most family therapy approaches that I’ve studied agree that the major goals of therapy are anxiety relief and change; however, theories differ on how to achieve these goals; for example, Bowen’s transgenerational model emphasizes insight into family patterns transmitted across generations (G&G, 2013, p. 208), whereas strategic therapy (p. 303) and brief solution-focused therapy (p. 376), though very different in origin, emphasize action and change over understanding and insight. To further illustrate, post-modern solution-focused therapy privileges “solution talk” over exploration of the problem (p. 376), and in its rush to achieve change, does not seem to honor clients’ struggles. Strategic family therapy seems…
Mental health is the ability to cognitively cope with stress in life in a healthy way and live life to its potential despite circumstances. Everyone faces stress, ranging from pending due dates to selling a house. However, positive mental health is shown by how well the person emotionally handles the situation. An example of this would be if Sally, who was selling her house, began aerobic exercise to decrease her stress level.…
Your environment creates a person’s values through a complex evolution of culture, interactions with others, life experiences and world views. As we grow and develop, life forms our values through a lifetime’s worth of experiences. As a counseling student, counselors shouldn’t force their values onto others. When working clients, you have to allow them to make their own decisions. As stated in the Ethical Code of Standards A., “counselors must be aware of their own values, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors and how these apply in it a diverse society”…
In looking at this theoretical approach, I found through reading that it shares important features with Carl Rogers’ person-centered therapy with the emphasis on facilitating the client’s ability to cope and to solve problems, long-term positive effects, and acceptance of the client’s internal frame of reference…
Out of all the theories we’ve covered through the course of the semester. Person-centered therapy has managed to capture my attention the most, and here’s why. Trust is something that’s automatically given to the client who is seen as the sole contributor of being able to solve his or her own problems without the assistance of direct intervention. Now, when I first heard of this therapy I immediately thought. “So, what exactly does the therapist do again?”…