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Person-centered psychiatric care requires person-centered psychiatric education (PCPE), as one is undeniably the mirror of the other. In parallel to the person-centered care it promotes, PCPE holds the person as the core substance of the learning process. PCPE aims for the learner to develop the knowledge and skills required for person-centered psychiatric care. The distinctive feature of PCPE, however, is its focus on the development of the attitudes necessary for such an approach to care. The present chapter describes some key elements and strategies of PCPE for medical students, psychiatrist trainees, and trained psychiatrists. In every case, PCPE is presented as an interactional process, dialogical in nature, and transformative in essence.

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The authors would like to acknowledge the invaluable contribution of Professor Bulent Coskun in the development of this chapter.

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  1. Centre for Addiction Research (CFAR) and Department of Social and Community Health, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Victoria Street West, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand

    Rodrigo Ramalho MD, PhD

  2. President, Fundacion Contener, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Roger Montenegro MD

  3. Former Secretary of Education, World Psychiatric Association, Geneva, Switzerland

    Roger Montenegro MD

  4. Former Director, Institute of Post Graduate Education, Association of Argentinean Psychiatrists, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Roger Montenegro MD

  5. Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, Clinical Hospital Centre Zagreb and School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Veljko Djordjevic MD, PhD & Marijana Braš MD, PhD

  6. Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist and Honorary Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Nikos Christodoulou MBBS, MSc, PhD, MRCPsych

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Ramalho, R., Montenegro, R., Djordjevic, V., Braš, M., Christodoulou, N. (2016). Person-Centered Psychiatric Education. In: Mezzich, J., Botbol, M., Christodoulou, G., Cloninger, C., Salloum, I. (eds) Person Centered Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39724-5_39

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