Person-Centred Approach in Healthcare: Stages, Models, and Challenges

This report provides an overview of the person-centred approach in healthcare, detailing its various stages, models, and the challenges encountered in its implementation. It explores the therapeutic process, including the stages of client engagement, from initial reluctance to self-ownership and readiness to face life's challenges. The report contrasts the medical and social models of disability, highlighting the differences in their approaches to patient care and control. It also examines the dilemmas experienced in the workplace, particularly in relation to consistency in approach, and the impact of patient-centred experiences, including a case study involving an elderly patient with Alzheimer's disease. Furthermore, the report addresses the challenges faced by care workers in applying a person-centred approach, such as managing emotional responses, responding to unusual symptoms, and the difficulties associated with disease progression. Overall, the report emphasizes the importance of adapting care strategies to individual needs and promoting patient autonomy and well-being.

Comparison on how social and medical models apply to person centred practice.
Social model of person centric is caused by the way society is
organised rather than by a person impairment or difference. It
looks at ways of removing barriers that restrict life choices for the
impairment people. In contrary, medical models of person centred
says that people get damaged because of their loss or differences.
So this is the first difference between social and medical models
which is based on two different concepts.
As according to the medical models the person
impairment can be solved by the medical cure or can be fixed by
treatment. In contrary, social model says that disabled person
cannot recover so quickly. It takes time and can affect the person
physical mental sensory. This is the another difference that be
found between social and medical models of person centred.
Other difference between medical and social models are disability. For example,
as according to medical model person own control is lost on their lives. Because
in medical terms the more important is what is “wrong” in the human body not
considered what they actually want (Bennett and et.al., 2019). In social models
they more focus on the person feelings and insight needs what actually they
want. For example, for wheelchair users building specially added ramp on the
entrance to make them comfortable to get into the building. This will help to
make the better control on their needs and wants else to just give them only
medicines.
Process of adopting person centered approach
when planning the delivery of care
Person centred approach uses a non-authoritative approach that
allows client to take more of a lead in discussion so that in the
process they well discover their own solutions. The main purpose
of this approach is facilitate, listening the client experience
without going in other directions. As according to Rogerian
approach of person centred in which they want to explains or says
to read the person's unconscious mind as they know what hurts
and on which direction they need to move. The process of person
centred approach consists 7 stages which is briefly given below:
Stage 1: First process of approach defines that at
initial level people will not get comfortable to speak about their
feelings. So at the initial stage patient or client does not freely
come up for the counselling.
Stage 2: In this stage there is a slightly less rigidity
with a small movement towards the responsibility. In this stage
care taker take responsibility to handle the case or not. So in this
phase care taker must have try to build a comfortable zone with
client and allowing the Clint to find their own way forward.
Stage 3: This process of therapy when client wants to forget their past but they can't.
This is a quite common stage when entering into a case with client. The person is
beginning to consider accepting the client needs and majorly get the high approach and
targets.
Stage 4: In this phase of therapy or approach client start share feeling and
their issues. In other words, at this step client start taking initiative in the process of
therapeutic relationship. It better helps to make or sustained the high effectively
manage process and make the things more clearly defined. At this process counsellor
must have known that to take care the needs and wants of the client and make them
comfortable to manage the things.
Stage 5: In this phase client taken ownership of their situation by their own
which is the good sign of recovery (Kim and Park, 2017). So it means the aim of the
therapy is start towards success. This is the productive stage of person centred approach
where the person gets confident to make their own decision-making abilities.
Stage 6: In this phase of therapy process client may not to continue the
session if they want. In other words, in this phase they fully accept the pain and
understand what they now actually want to do with the life.
Stage 7: This is the last process of therapy where the client fully ready to
take challenges of life.
Challenges have faced by me when applying person centred care.
Being as a Domiciliary care worker I have been facing
many issues and barriers while conducting a care of my patient.
Care giving with illness is challenging as sometimes it is difficult
for the people as well. During handling a patient of Alzheimer's I
have faced several difficulties like emotionally coming to terms
with disease progression towards end of life. sometime I feel
discomfort to managing the person care I afraid of the uncertain
things happened anytime. Because sometimes, things are
uncontrollable situations which creates risky circumstances and
makes the things unevenly implemented. Another issue that I have
faced during the journey of person centred is responding towards
those unusual symptoms which is not related to the current
suffering.
Evaluate different dilemmas experienced in own work place affect consistency in
approach.
Patient centred experience is different with different people. Every person
different from other so as their issues as well. I have faced both good or bad
experience throughout my journey. Recently I deal with the case where the old lady
suffering from Alzheimer’s. During the care of her I have experienced both informal
and formal experience that makes the process or things more clear towards the
making the best performing task and approach. The basic purpose of care taker is to
control the activities and take care of the patient who suffering from specific
disability. In other words, care of people who are unable to take care of themselves
and compassion towards people who are vulnerable has been a basic tenet of
medicine. However, during the providing services to them I have gained more
knowledge a day by day and think more about how can I give more effective care to
them through which they work effectively and recover in fast manner. By the help
of improving patient experience my own experienced also increased in the great
manner. Besides, it also helped me to learn new information and concept to develop