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Institutional versus client-centred care in general hospitals

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Good teachers will monitor their pupils, assessing the need of each child and adjusting the teaching accordingly to suit those needs. Such a style is called pupil-centred teaching. In contrast, teacher-centred style follows objectives tied to issues other than how the pupil is doing, such as the teacher’s own needs or a mechancial link with a syllabus and a narrow style of teaching. In general terms, good educational practice leans towards the pupil-centred approach, although never completely so.

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Nichols, K.A. (1995). Institutional versus client-centred care in general hospitals. In: Broome, A., Llewelyn, S. (eds) Health Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3226-6_6

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