Explain how and why person centred values must influence all aspects of health and social care.

I believe that three words are important in this sentence and can help us to better understand what is a real mainstream issue in modern care approaches. These words are: values, person-centered and care. They well synthetize not only what we could call the multifactorial and multidisciplinary theoretical and practical working frame of modern interventions, planning, but also clearly define what our duty is as frontline workers, care. In fact, we care for what is valued the most in our society, the person, seen as a treasured and unique individual. This way of working with clients in any kind of need is called person-centred, because the real person, and not and abstract concept of it, is the focus of our planning. Having said that, there are more points that need to be addressed to fully answer this question. In fact, how Person-centred approaches have reached quite a long history as a movement, a current in the mainstream of care practices? This happened for several reasons, and the most important is that PCP is the strongly supported alternative to one of the most degrading way of looking after other human …show more content…
Of course, all of this has specific historical explanations, and we cannot blame the past for not having done enough to improve people’s life, but we must remember what it was like at the time of psychiatric hospitals and working houses, where people were literally imprisoned , kept away to prevent harm, but most of all because alterity was not understood and scared others, and seemed a too dysfunctional relation for a society that could not explain or accept