Humanistic approach introduced by the ideas of Scholars like Erickson, Roger, and Maslow began to permeate the field of second language teaching and learning towards the end of 1970. According to Lei (2007) humanistic approach emphasizes the importance of the inner world of the learner and places the individual’s thought, emotions and feelings at the forefront of all human development. Due to t...

The purpose of this study was to develop and deliver a humanistic coaching workshop, as well as investigate coaches’ perceptions of this workshop and their experiences using humanistic coaching. Participants were 12 coaches of grade 7–11 basketball teams from schools in low socioeconomic communities in a major Canadian city. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and personal journ...

Jia Pingwa is a writer who cares deeply about the underclass, and his novel Gao Xing another of creative heights, following Ruined City The Qin Cavern. tells story peasant workers’ journey to city in this novel. This paper discusses Pingwa's literary portrayal character underclass scavenger, ingenious use narrative perspective creating story, social criticism humanistic concern shown work throu...

The following document is a statement of recommended principles for the provision of humanistic psychological services, particularly psychotherapy, although the principles elucidated apply to the provision of other psychological services as well. It was prepared under the directive of the Executive Board of the Division of Humanistic Psychology, by a task force appointed by the Executive Board ...

The purpose of medicine is to prevent illness, to cure disease, to relieve suffering and to maintain health. The duty of the physicians, of course, is to rescue life, to cure disease, to relieve suffering and to promote health. However, “birth, aging, sickness and death” are unavoidable path of human life. When a person has reached the end of his life, when death is impending, the duty of medic...

We must recreate the system so that it recognises, rewards, reinforces and reimburses humanistic standards of medical care FOR SOME TIME, I have taught communication and rela-tional skills to medical students and physicians-in-training in an internal medicine residency program in the United States. What became apparent to me early on was that the humanistic, relationship-centred attitudes and b...