person-centered
Tailored to individuals
Person-centered describes an approach that prioritizes the individual's needs, preferences, and autonomy rather than institutional convenience or standardized procedures.
The term appears most often in healthcare and social services: person-centered care, person-centered planning.
A person-centered approach treats someone as an active participant in decisions about their own life rather than a passive recipient of services.
Popular English surname
- humanisticCentered on human values
- empathySharing another's emotions
- congruenceState of agreement
- self-actualizationAchieving one's complete potential
reflective listening · genuineness · acceptance · growth · trust · validation · presence · attunement
Addressing interconnected wholes
- individualizedAdapted for one person
- care planOrganized healthcare strategy
- dignityInnate personal worth
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
well-being · empowerment · self-determination · collaborative · compassionate · preferences · values · goals
Adapted for one person
- differentiatedMade unlike others
- self-pacedControlled by the learner
- inquiry-basedDriven by questioning
- agencyPower to act
strengths-based · responsive · adaptive · personalized learning · scaffolding · motivation · engagement · autonomy
Promoting one's own interests
- independenceFreedom from external control
- inclusionBeing made part
- rights-basedGrounded in inherent claims
- supported livingResidential care maintaining autonomy
self-directed · choice · agency · accessibility · empowerment · normalization · participation · voice
Rogers
Popular English surname
- humanisticCentered on human values
- empathySharing another's emotions
- congruenceState of agreement
self-actualization · reflective listening · genuineness · acceptance · growth · trust · validation · presence · attunement · rapport
holistic
Addressing interconnected wholes
- individualizedAdapted for one person
- care planOrganized healthcare strategy
- dignityInnate personal worth
autonomy · well-being · empowerment · self-determination · collaborative · compassionate · preferences · values · goals · trauma-informed
individualized
Adapted for one person
- differentiatedMade unlike others
- self-pacedControlled by the learner
- inquiry-basedDriven by questioning
agency · strengths-based · responsive · adaptive · personalized learning · scaffolding · motivation · engagement · autonomy · meaningful
self-advocacy
Promoting one's own interests
- independenceFreedom from external control
- inclusionBeing made part
- rights-basedGrounded in inherent claims
supported living · self-directed · choice · agency · accessibility · empowerment · normalization · participation · voice · capability
- therapypsychotherapy, therapist, session, counselor, group therapy
- humanistic psychologyAbraham Maslow, self-actualization, hierarchy of needs, congruence, genuineness
- social workcase notes, fieldwork, community development, clinical practice, practicum
- psychologypsychology, psychologist, therapist, psychiatrist, clinical psychology
- caseworkcase notes, case file, case review, caseload, case load
person-centereddepersonalized
Made impersonal or anonymous
dehumanizing · bureaucratic · impersonal · mechanistic · clinical
person-centeredpaternalistic
Restrictive under guise of care
authoritarian · top-down · prescriptive · directive · coercive
person-centeredstandardized
Made uniform across cases
one-size-fits-all · uniform · cookie-cutter · mass-produced · generic
person, center, persons, personal, personally, personality, personalities, personhood, personage