{"id":8723,"date":"2019-05-22T16:10:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/person-centered_approaches\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:10:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:49","slug":"person-centered_approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/person-centered_approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Person-centered approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A research strategy organised around specific kinds of persons and addressing issues such as what kinds of problems handicapped children meet in comparison to non-handicapped ones. &nbsp;There are two distinct interpretations of what constitutes such an approach. &nbsp;One is associated with the system of counselling and psychotherapy devised by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplypsychology.org\/carl-rogers.html\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.simplypsychology.org\/carl-rogers.html?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carl Rogers&nbsp;<\/a>(1902-1987) and referred to as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/what-doesnt-kill-us\/201503\/carl-rogers-person-centered-approach\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/what-doesnt-kill-us\/201503\/carl-rogers-person-centered-approach?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rogerian approach<\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp;In a nutshell, it focuses on a client&#8217;s self-understandng and a means beneficially altering the self-concept. &nbsp;In this respect, it differs from psychodynamic and behavioral approaches such as cognitive behavioral theory. &nbsp;The other interpretation concerns at what level, individual or some collective variable, longitudinal research evaluates change over time. &nbsp;Thus, in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/202921\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/202921?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">person-centered approach<\/a>&nbsp;the person is the unit of analysis in contrast to a variable-centered one. &nbsp;In studying development, an optimal approach would be to integrate both approaches in the same longitudinal study (e.g., by means of latent profile analysis). &nbsp;. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), Latent variable modelling, <a href=\"longitudinal_studies\">Longitudinal studies<\/a>, <a href=\"person-specific_variance\">Person-specific variance<\/a>, <a href=\"variable-centered_approaches\">Variable-centered approaches<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research strategy organised around specific kinds of persons and addressing issues such as what kinds of problems handicapped children meet in comparison to non-handicapped ones. &nbsp;There are two distinct interpretations of what constitutes such an approach. &nbsp;One is associated with the system of counselling and psychotherapy devised by&nbsp;Carl Rogers&nbsp;(1902-1987) and referred to as the&nbsp;Rogerian &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/person-centered_approaches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Person-centered approaches&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}