Client Centered Practices in Healthcare

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CLIENT CENTRED THERAPEUTICAL PRACTICES IN SAUDI ARABIA
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Introduction
Client-Centered practices in healthcare involve thinking and carrying out health-related activities
in a way that considers all participants equal partners during planning, development, and
monitoring processes. This process means that even the patients and their family members are at
the center of all the events taking place such as making decisions and seeing them as experts
working with the health professionals (Eutsler, Norris, & Trompeter 2018, p. 160). This
technique aims at achieving the best results for patients while taking into consideration their
lifestyles, values, desires, conditions of their families as well as social circumstances.
The process requires that one takes time to think and view things from the angle of others and
respecting other people's ideas. A health practitioner can show this concept by sharing decisions
with the patients and trying to help them manage their health on their own. This type of
partnership can be on one-to-one in which case the patient gets involved in designing the medical
procedure, or the partnership can be a collective group where the family, friends, and the public
take part in the service delivery (Ewing, Monsen, & Kwoka 2014, p. 201). This technique has
changed how both health practitioners and patients view the entire health processes and the kind
of relationship that exists between them. In cases, one-to-one basis and collective group, the
underlying ideology are working with the people. It should be noted that there are various
definitions given to this technique such as patient-centered, individualized, family-centered,
user-centered Xiaowen & Xiaohui 2017, p. 229). In whichever way the method is defined, the
basic idea is to provide health services to patients in a way that makes them comfortable.
It was generally accepted that the patients had to adhere to the rules and schedule set by the
health service providers. Since the introduction of client-based practices, there are changes in
how people perceive the health service provision. The providers of the service try to include the

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patients and their family members in making decisions regarding the nature of medication to be
provided. The application of the technique has covered various part of the world. For instance in
Saudi Arabia where health care providers seek to have good communication with patients to
achieve client satisfaction.
A typical case in Saudi Arabia is the prevalence of diabetes mellitus. Some practical ways of
managing this health condition involve educating the patient and make him, or she acquires some
self-dependent knowledge and skills o manage their disease. According to Foley and Assouline
(2015, p. 208), this type of training on self-reliance requires the doctor to consider the
circumstances that surround the patient and effective communication. The health professional
needs to make sure the patient is comfortable with the process, and have enough self-confidence
such that he or she can manage some conditions even in the absence of the doctor (Velde,
Devisch, & Vriendt 2016, p. 1570). Client-Centered practices help the doctor gain the patient
confidence and trusting the entire process. This is since the patients, and their family members
are involved in the decision-making process; they, therefore, feel and take responsibility for
some events during the medication process.
This technique helps in that there are pieces of evidence indicating that in the event of poor
communication between the doctor and patient, the patient may have a contrary belief about the
disease different from what the doctor intended to convey. Various studies indicate that there are
about fifty misconceptions the citizens of Saudi Arabia hold regarding diabetes mellitus; these
misunderstandings result from lack of minimum required knowledge that the public should hold
about the disease (Grable & Carr 2014, p. 13). From the research studies conducted in the
country, the best way to handle the situation is patient-centered practice. With this technique,
health care providers would be able to educate and gain trust among the country’s population.

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The process would make the public have confidence among them, administer preventive
measures and manage the already affected individuals.
History
Client-centered practice is a technique that was developed by Carl Rogers in the early 1940s and
is currently viewed as the foundation of the humanistic ideologies used in psychotherapies. In
coming up with the thinking, Carl Rogers argued that experiences an individual has could be used
as the standard of carrying out various types of therapy like occupational therapy. According to
the founder, six conditions need to be met for any change to be experienced among clients
undergoing treatment. These conditions include genuineness, relationship, the patient's view
regarding the honesty of the doctor, the therapist's positive perception regarding the patient, and
accurate empathy (Hansen, Kristensen, Cederlund, Lauridsen, & Tromborg 2018, p. 1550).
Rogers claimed that the success of the therapeutic process should be based on the
accomplishments of the client. He believed that the client could behave better in a psychologically
conducive environment associated with the freedom to participate in the decision-making process.
Such kind of environments is characterized by true faith in one's thoughts, acknowledgment of
freedom, organismic trust, and a feeling of wilful contribution to other people's life affairs. This
technique contrasts the originally used methods where the patients had to conform to the
regulations of the doctor, and all the decisions were made by the medical team without involving
the patient (Swank, Shin, Cabrita, Cheung, & Rivers 2015, p. 449). However, this technique has
received criticism from behaviorists arguing that it lacks structure and that it creates a dependent
relationship between the client and the doctor as indicated by some psychoanalysts. Despite the
above criticisms, client-centered practices are considered the best effective treatment methods in
handling chronic diseases and behavioral conditions.