It is assumed that in order for psychosocial treatment to be acceptable and effective with a client population, it must be sensitive to the cultural characteristics of that population. The paradigm of planning therapy according to the cultural characteristicirrs-Capuputirs illustrated for Cuban immigrant adolescents. To investigate cultural variables, a Value Orientations Scale was developed ba...

Process-Experiential/Emotion-Focused Therapy (PE-EFT) is an empirically-supported, neo-humanistic approach that integrates and updates person-centered, Gestalt, and existential therapies. In this article, we first present what we see as PE-EFT's five essential features, namely neo-humanistic values, process-experiential emotion theory, person-centered but process-guiding relational stance, ther...

"Humanistic medicine" is a term compounded, for therapeutic purposes, with the good intent of reminding clinicians of their need to be compassionate and empathic. Although the expression is arresting, and demands thought, it does not go far enough. "Values-based medicine" is a stronger term, reminding clinicians of the sustaining values that underpin the whole health endeavour. These values inc...

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PLANT SCIENCES By WILLIAM C. DARRAH, Tutor in the Department of Biology and Research Curator in the Botanical Museum, Harvard University. This book offers a concise, humanistic account, of the nature of the plant kingdom. It is intended for use by students in a half-year or one-semester course in botany or plant biology. Emphasis is placed on these four recent development...

"To be human, means to be at play" (C.G. Jung). The democratisation of the east european societies caused an important development in the health system of these countries and in particular of mental health. Within the medicine itself, psychiatry as a special branch of it, is undergoing changes rapidly due to this important development in medicine. Relations of psychiatry with the rest of medici...

This study analyzed the performance of cabbage marketing in Abia State, Nigeria. Specifically the study sought to: describe socio-economic characteristics of cabbage marketers; identify marketing channels of cabbage; determine marketing cost components of cabbage marketers; determine marketing margins, market share and marketing efficiency of cabbage marketers; and determine socio-economic fact...

We present a way of making the wearing of a lifelong electrocardiographic health monitor fun for a user. The health monitor is coupled with a reality mediator device to create a Physiologically Mediated Reality. Physiologically Mediated Reality is Mediated Reality which alters a user’s audiovisual perception of the world based upon their own electrocardiographic waveform. This creates an intere...

The Environmental Humanities constitute an emerging transdisciplinary enterprise that is becoming a key part of the liberal arts and an indispensable component of the twenty-first-century university. Bringing together scholars from a number of environmentally related fields in the humanities and allied social sciences—including Ecocriticism (Literature and Environment studies), Environmental Hi...