W#10 PP peer replies
Patient-Centered Therapy
By: yuanith, Jorge, yaquian, Kristina
Theory and practice of contemporary psychotherapies
Patient-Centered Therapy
In a Person-Centered Therapy, the goal is to empower the patient. The therapist does not guide the conversation, instead the therapist lets the patients take the lead in determining what they want to talk about. For example, questions such as “What would you like to talk about today?” let the client initiate the therapy session.
Patient-Centered Therapy
The therapist is not the “expert” who will lay out the plan of care, guide or give advice during the session. On the contrary, the patient will gain insight to their inner feelings and experiences, giving them absolute power in developing their own answers and plan of care.
Discussion Question 1
Please watch the YouTube video on Person-Centered Therapy. What is Person-Centered therapy? How can we use this approach to help mentally-ill clients?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uqv3dlmVD0
Discussion Question #2
What are the pros and cons of this approach? What are some the things the therapist may miss by allowing the client to take the lead?
Discussion peer reply
Reply to two of your peers’ posts. What do you agree and/or disagree with? Why? Provide your rationale. What else should your peers consider with Patient-Centered Therapy?
References
Bazzano, M. (2016). The Conservative Turn In Person-Centered Therapy. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies, 15(4), 339-355. http:// dx.doi.org /10.1080/14779757.2016.1228540
Grande, T.L. (2016). Theories of Counseling – Person-Centered Therapy [Video]. Retrieved 13 October 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqv3dlmVD0
Joseph, S. (2019). Why we need a more humanistic positive organizational scholarship: Carl Rogers’ person-centered approach as a challenge to neoliberalism. The Humanistic Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000151
References
Patel, M. M. (2016). The theory and rhetoric of person-centered therapy from the view of Carl Rogers. International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews, 2(3), 58- 61. https://ijrar.com/upload_issue/ijrar_issue_275.pdf