to provide quality person-centered care throughout the helping professions. I have sought to advance a person/patient-centered approach in my research, writing, and teaching. In this section of my site I am offering three resources to support you in providing this essential care.
First, my and others’ work on secrets and self-concealment, which you can access here, explores issues of authenticity and the healing human connection so central to person-centered care.
Second, I have always believed in the person-centered principle of empowering others by giving away  psychological knowledge and skills for helping and for positively coping with life's difficulties. An earlier edited book of mine. free at goggle books , presents this view and model  programs for teaching these skills. In that same spirit I collaborated in creating the Finding Our Way: Living With Dying America newspaper series. This series sought to enhance our collective efficacy in the face of death, dying and grief.
Third, much earlier in my career, I developed the Caring Helper video series that was extensively used in end-of-life  training programs. These latter two resources are from a different time, but I am told retain value, so I have made them freely accessible here.
The COVID-19 pandemic and post-pandemic era make the call for cultivating and maintaining compassionate, person-centered care even more vital and challenging, but together we can answer the call.