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Integrating Traditional Healing Practices Into Counseling and Psychotherapy critically examines ethnic minority cultural and traditional healing in relation to counseling and psychotherapy. Authors Roy Moodley and William West highlight the challenges and changes in the field of multicultural counseling and psychotherapy by integrating current issues of traditional healing with contemporary practice. The book uniquely presents a range of accounts of the dilemmas and issues facing students, professional counselors, psychotherapists, social workers, researchers, and others who use multicultural counseling or transcultural psychotherapy as part of their professional practice.
Morita Therapy: A Philosophy of Yin/Yang Coexistence
Morita Therapy: A Philosophy of Yin/Yang Coexistence
Morita therapy is a Japanese psychotherapy established by psychiatrist Shoma Morita in the late 1910s and early 1920s (Morita, 1928/1974). Rooted in the Eastern philosophy of maintaining a balanced lifestyle, Morita therapy was originally developed for the treatment of clients with the general symptom of nervousness and social anxiety (shinkeishitsu in Japanese) (Kitanishi, 1992; Kora, 1991). The therapy is one of the very few Eastern or Asian therapeutic models that has received considerable attention in the Western helping professions for the last several decades, especially since the 1970s. There has been much interest in exploring the clinical value of Morita therapy through both research and practice (Alden & Ishiyama, 1997; Ishiyama, ...
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