title: Acknowledging barriers in adopting person-centered planning.
abstract: An apparent contradiction in adopting person-centered planning is exemplified by the question "If a system adopts person-centered planning, isn't it system-centered"? Such ambiguities are obvious to employees, who increasingly are being asked to consider more personalized ways of assisting people through person-centered planning. Our premise in this article is that employees' reservations are well-founded and should be addressed in order to facilitate understanding and eventual reconciliation of unavoidable conflicts that emerge when person-centered planning is undertaken by agency employees. Administrators who acknowledge the uncertainties accompanying person-centered planning and invite discussion about conceptual and practical difficulties inherent in its adoption are modeling a collaborative method of discovering ways to help people get what they need. Examples of group solutions are presented.
authors.affiliation: New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disability, Institute for Basic Research, Staten Island 10314, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Holburn
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vietze
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000628:therapy*; D007802:Language; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000592:standards*