Person-Centered Care and Physical Therapy: A “People-Like-Me” Approach

activities for people with dementia ' ' It makes me feel like myself ' ' : Person - centered versus traditional visual arts

During a 15-month period between February 2010 and April 2011, video data on (n1⁄4 38) people with dementia were collected during a person-centered and intergenerational arts activity program called Opening Minds through Art (OMA) at three different long-term care facilities in Ohio. A subsample of the OMA participants (n1⁄4 10) were also video recorded during traditional visual arts activities...

A People-Centered Approach to Tuberculosis Care and Control

Person-centered child and adolescent psychiatric care

This paper presents a person-centered perspective to child and adolescent psychiatric care first through an examination of the particular specificities of diagnosis in child and adolescent psychiatry and then through a review of the importance of empathy to approach subjectivity in clinical care. As such, this discussion highlights some key issues for person-centered care in psychiatry and medi...

Why do I like people like me?

In many dimensions the ability to assess knowledge depends critically on the observer's own knowledge of that dimension. Building on this feature, this paper offers both theoretical and empirical evidence showing that, in those tasks where multidisciplinary knowledge is required, evaluations exhibit a similar-to-me effect: candidates who excel in the same dimensions as the evaluator tend to be ...

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...