Some Axiological Background of Person-centered Approach

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...

Person-centered approaches 1 Person-centered Approaches to Personality

Person-centered medical interview

We are witnessing an unprecedented development of medical science and personalized medicine. However, technological superiority must not make us lose sight of the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual totality of the patient. The core of the medical profession has always been and will be the relationship between the health professional and the person seeking assistance. However, the tr...

Person-centered diagnosis

The person-centered integrative diagnosis model (PID) is the key diagnostic project of the Psychiatry for the Person Institutional Program of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA General Assembly, 2005) which proposes the whole person in context, as the center and goal of clinical care and public health [9]. The PID is the operational articulation of the psychiatry for the person diagnostic p...

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...