The articles by Elkins (D. N. Elkins, 2012, Toward a common focus in psychotherapy research, Psychotherapy, 49, pp. 450-454) and Hayes (S. C. Hayes, 2012, Humanistic psychology and contextual behavioral perspectives, Psychotherapy, 49, pp. 455-460) serve as a springboard for a call for a renewal of personological methods in studies of the psychotherapeutic relationship-methods that can investig...

The recovery alliance theory (RAT) is a mid-range theory of mental health nursing based on humanistic philosophy. The conception of the RAT was the outcome of collaboration among service users, practising mental health nurses, educationalists and managers and was developed in the context of a number of political and social changes as well as changes in the mental health field. The theory is com...

A paradigm change from mechanistic to humanistic management theories and practices is underway, exemplified in a shift from an economics oriented at the fictional homo oeconomicus towards novel models oriented at the real conditio humana. This methodological turn brings about both the opportunity and the necessity of re-orienting management theory as well as business education to the idea of hu...

Multimedia content shared within social networks has become one of the most interesting research fields in the last few years. This paper investigates how this undoubted emerge in enriched, geo-tagged multimedia content has evolved over time within the humanistic framework of the Flickr social network and summarizes numerous content mining techniques in the process. It attempts also to identify...

The purpose of this study is to establish hierarchical structures for the performance evaluation of vague, humanistic complicated systems. To overcome the difficulties due to partial information and the vagueness of human knowledge and recognition, a fuzzy relation-based clustering method is proposed to model this evaluation. First, the effects of different max-ti compositions on the formation ...

The present study investigated a labeling bias against behavior modification in work organizations. Groups of individuals in favor or opposed to the use of behavior modification in industry were formed. The identical videotape of a performance appraisal interview was shown to these subjects after half of each group had received a humanistic, and the other half a behavior modification, descripti...