Person Centered Care

Date: July 29th, 2019
Time: 12:45pm-4:00pm
CEUs: 3.0
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Description

This foundational class explores and defines Person Centered Care in mental health programming. The class raises participants’ awareness of how power imbalances negatively impact people receiving support and services. Additionally, the course offers strategies for adopting a whole-person focus to providing support.

Topics

• Moving towards a whole-person approach

• Power imbalance and stigma

• Person centered language

• Examples of person centered practices

• Helping people make informed choices

• Defining person centered care

Objectives

• Learners evaluate current attitudes and approaches to mental health care within a historical context

• Learners recognize the effects of power imbalance in case studies

• Learners recognize the need for a whole person approach in mental health care

• Learners are able to cite specific examples of person centered practices

• Learners are able to define person centered care

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