About PHAT

Psychologically Humane Assessment and Treatment

Psychologically Humane Assessment and Treatment (PHAT) requires emotional authenticity, intellectual rigor and personal commitment on the part of an individual serving other individuals in a clinical setting.

No single technique or data set can be valued above the mind of the individual being served, or the interpersonal dynamics between the individual who serves and the individual who is served.  (Criteria for systematically determining which techniques and data are necessary can be specified.  Underlying such criteria is an imperative understanding that the mind and the subjective reality of the individual will not remain in the abstract once techniques are employed and data is collected.)

Related and relevant concepts

Individuality

Diseases and disorders might be cured, but individual human beings must be healed, and it is all too possible for a course of treatment to effect cure while leaving the human individual tragically short of healing.

In a healing relationship, neither any of those serving nor any of those served can be esteemed as anything less than an individual human being.  (Individuality being complex, both objective and subjective expository works are featured on this weblog.)

Neurodiversity

Neurodiversity is a perspective actively, and unapologetically, acknowledged and promoted here.  (This century being the 21st, acceptance of neurodiversity seems quite overdue in society at large.)

About aspiehd

Clinically certified in speech-language pathology since 1993, Merlin L. Taylor, Jr. earned a Ph.D. from University of Memphis in 1998.  Born with Asperger syndrome, Dr. Taylor has pursued understanding of neurodevelopment through research and practice at various institutions, and has delivered presentations on autism at regional and national conferences.  Please feel free to contact him via e-mail (aspiehd@gmail.com).

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