PNI provides the scientific foundation of several integrative therapies. PNI interventions or mind-body therapies can be categorized into four general mechanisms: sensory, cognitive, expressive, and physical. Some therapies are used in combination, and others incorporate more than one mechanism. Although PNI is limited as a purely biomedical framework, it is a valuable frame of reference becaus...

Methods A draft measure was developed based on an in-depth literature review of the concept of human warmth by a multidisciplinary expert group working in integrative medicine. Sixteen cognitive probing interviews were conducted to examine how patients from integrative and conventional medicine perceive and interpret this new measure and to identify potential problems. A content analysis of the...

1. Elements of psychology and child counselling 1.1. Child’s cognitive development 1.2. Way of communication between the child and counsellor 1.3. Child game 2. Elements of psychopathology and approaches in counselling 2.1. The main categories of psychopathology in child 2.2. Transfer to child 2.3. Ways of approaching in child counselling 3. Integrative programs for child counselling 3.1. Indiv...

1 Department of Clinical Medicine, Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 2 Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Cognitive Science, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 3 Department of Psychology, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, 4 Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK,...

One of the main concerns of reasoning about space is the recognition of objects. This recognition can be seen as mere pattern recognition through some form of template matching. However, the necessarily recognition for interactive cognitive systems requires some form of understanding of the object and give its existence in the environment a meaning represented by its relations to other existenc...

the present study investigated factors affecting cognitive failure including, age, sex, occupation, type of degree,  terms of conditional  and also cognitive failure associated with academic failure.  the study is descriptive and correlation.  statistical society includes all students  of azad university , yadegar-e-emam khomeini (rh) shahreray  branch(n=22904). students were studying in 93-92 ...

Logotherapy is a meaning-centered approach to psychotherapy, which is compatible with cognitive behavior therapy. Its basic tenets have the potential to increase both the efficacy and effectiveness of the therapeutic process. This article describes the main techniques of logotherapy and provides specific and practical examples of how they may be incorporated into a cognitive behavior framework....