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Person centred values are treating people as individuals, supporting their choices, treating them with dignity and respect, working in partnership with people rather than trying to control them.

The main principles of person centred model are the core conditions of empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard. They are vital for building a safe therapeutic relationship, in which the client can explore fully.

Person centred values must influence all aspects of work as it provides a more holistic and individual support service for the individual. Person centred values also support the individual with making their own choices and helps empower the person.

Person centred theory came from Carl Rogers who believed in being warm, genuine and understanding make a difference in clients’ condition and its improvement. Believes and values are very important in person centred thinking and planning. Carl Rogers identified three main core conditions that have a significant influence when supporting vulnerable people, which are an unconditional positive regard, empathy and congruence. However, later on he expands his list to a six core conditions in total.

Person-centred is about providing care and support that is centred or focused on the individual and their needs. We are all individuals and just because two people might have the same medical condition, for example, dementia, it doesn’t mean that they require the same care or support because they are two different people which means their needs will be different. You need to develop a clear understanding about the individuals that you are working with and their needs, culture, means of communication, likes and dislikes, family and other professional’s

Person centred values means the people whom we support are treated as equals and are involved in all aspects and areas of their care and that they are respected and valued as individuals. This means being involved in their assessments, care delivery and support planning, basically person centred values is making sure all approaches, policies and procedures and care practices put the residents at the centre of the day-to-day activities. It should also include the residents and their families in the planning and maintaining of this.

There are many benefits regarding using person centred care in health and social care setting which explain the reasons of the popularity of the approach. In my opinion when it comes to care for people living with dementia, the person centred approach plays vital part with many advantages which cannot be ignored and replaced.

Person centred care provides a set of guiding principles for our actions in the field of dementia care that enable people with dementia to be in relationship with others. There are four major elements of care (VIPS), Valuing people, Individualised care,

Gesture- Upper body movement, including use of the arms and hands, used to amplify a speaker’s words.

Growing up I learned both common American gestures and a bit of sign language. Many of these gestures do not overlap though, and the meanings vary from spoken English and sign language. In addition, facial expressions also vary between the languages, which leads to additional complications. I have relied on gestures throughout my life to fully understand the meaning of a conversation because I have had hearing loss since childhood. Most people do not have to consider what a gesture or facial expression contributes to nonverbal communication, they see them and know what they mean because of the tone of a person’s voice, or what was said. On the other hand, I struggle to understand speech when certain inflections are made, or letter sounds fall in a specific place in the sentence. Instead, I rely on the speakers facial expressions to tell me the mood of the conversation, and gestures to fill in gaps of missed speech. “Movements of the body to communicate with others, are shorthand ways to convey messages without using words”, Henslin says, and this sums up my experience with gestures (2014, p.

Candidate Name: Unit Titles: Promote the application of person centred approaches in health and social care

Firstly, the concept I found most beneficial is affect displays. Affect displays is a communication action that uses gesture such as hands movement, shaky hands due to nervousness, or startle by shock. The uses of gesture communicate of one person emotions to its audience. For an example, Floyd stated ‘You probably know people who wring their hands when they’re nervous or cover their mouth with their hands when they’re surprised. Those are both affect displays because they coincide with particular emotions’ (Floyd, 2014). It follows that when one demonstrate the notion of affect displays as communicating is expressing emotion through their physical motion. For this reason

Touch: touch is a very powerful means of communication. Lightly touching a person’s hand can convey your concern and affection for them. But as with eye contact, the touch has to be appropriate, and there are important cultural issues around touch that need to be understood. It’s also important that patient/clients give permission for you to touch them, something we looked at in more detail in

Our body language gives messages of how one is being responded to and how what is being said is being received. This includes while being spoken to whether one’s arms are folded or open, or how rigid or tense or muscles appear to be. Generally, our body position reflects what emotions we are feeling.

For example, if a student is listening at a lecture and the speaker is not making eye contact, making wild hand gestures, jerky body movements, and their voice is cracking then the listeners would have a negative experience. The way the speaker moves, looks and reacts tells the listeners he is uncomfortable and this causes the listeners to become disinterested in the subject matter. These nonverbal communications have a huge impact on how the listeners respond because gestures express as much as or more than words. The speaker must be acutely aware of his body language and that of his audience because if he crosses his arms it could indicate defensiveness or disinterest. The speaker may clench or wring his hands can indicate tension, strong disagreement or feelings of pressure. If the speaker begins to tap his fingers on the podium or looking at his watch can show boredom or impatience. Eye contact, or lack of it, can cause a listener to feel ignored; too much might cause the listener to feel self-conscious or threatened. Facial expressions can reflect honesty, friendliness, guilt, happiness, sadness, fear and many other feelings. Unlike verbal sentences, facial expressions can express the entire message in an instant. “In contrast to other closed-class expressions, demonstratives are universal, they are generally so old that their roots are not etymologically analyzable, they are among the earliest words that children learn, and they are closely