Neurodiversity and the Person-Centred Approach
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About the autistic author markerHallett, S. (2025). Neurodiversity and the Person-Centred Approach. In Applying the Person-Centred Approach to Global, Social and Personal Crises (1st ed., pp. 51-56). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003536048-9 · ISBN : 9781003536048 · Place of publication : London
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Abstract
There are many parallels between the person-centred approach and ways of being in community that have organically emerged in marginalised and minoritised communities. This chapter explores the parallels between the core conditions of the person-centred approach in therapy and the author’s experience of the empathy, congruence and prizing embodied by the autistic and other marginalised communities. It suggests that these conditions have come about in marginalised communities out of necessity, to allow for growth and to provide safer spaces for people with minoritised experiences of the world. The author suggests that person-centred therapists, and the person-centred approach more generally, could learn a lot from the experiences of these communities when working to support difference, diversity, and intersectionality, and do a lot of good for minority communities if they were to learn from them, expanding their understanding of human experience. The chapter will draw on the author’s own experiences of person-centred therapy, of being a part of disabled and queer communities, and of working with clients from within these communities.
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