1. What is a person-centred approach?

[@jogalvin3293]

This is what Occupational Therapists have been doing ever since the profession has evolved, OT's assess people's strengths and abilities to participate in activity, they support choice and engagement in meaningful activities.

[@wemuk5170]

PCA is excellent but I suspect he might have explained this incorrectly? You are not advised by the therapist to avoid your fears but to confront them - one bitesize half-step at a time. Just one example: my son was blessed with a PCA as we had a home-visiting weekly therapist as adviser & one thing that terrified him was getting on board a train. This is a meltdown trigger. Instead of avoiding trains altogether to reduce his anxiety, he was treated to familiar circumstances controlled to-one-station train visits & then to just the next-station trip per week. To face his fears one by one. Thus, he was systemically exposed to the tiniest bitesize challenges, one at a time out of his comfort zone, so that he can learn to enjoy life. What he has tried which he genuinely does dislike (or is bored with) as opposed to fear, we will not do again, but to cut a long story short, his train terror & transport meltdown yesterday, is today, now, a lifetime transport & train obsession that gives him immeasurable joy! The therapist also empowered him to do day to day practical things he could not do without advice on special equipment (like for eating) but for his intellectual disability. They empower you in every way & aspect & they support you wonderfully, in your day to day living & your work or activity preferences & your life choices. However, a therapist certainly would not ‘support’ you to avoid your anxieties & fears to stay within your comfort zone, thereby depriving you the opportunity to develop: new (soft & hard) skills and resilience.

[@markharrison4443]

This sounds like a development of Carl Rogers' concept of a person-centered approach but does not seem to acknowledge his work. His major theoretical statement was published in 1959, although an overview was released in 1957 which has become known as the 'six conditions' or 'core conditions'. Whilst this was orientated towards psychotherapy and counselling as a 'client-centered therapy', Rogers moved into group-work where he adopted the term 'person-centered approach'. He initially wrote extensively about counselling, and then about teaching, conflict management, relationships and encounter.

[@mulengachikuka9584]

What role does it play in poverty reduction?

[@emmanuelufot4947]

Did you understand what he was talking about? This has nothing to do with poverty.

[@maraleemoen5856]

Might want to use spell check - person CENTERED

[@adeleweaver4776]

we are in the UK not the USA