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An Integrative Approach to Counseling: Bridging Chinese Thought, Evolutionary Theory, and Stress Management offers a global and integrative approach to counseling that incorporates multiple concepts and techniques from both eastern and western perspectives. The book identifies commonalities rather than the differences between them. The book also compares and contrasts the underlying cultural assumptions of western counseling with those of the Chinese perspectives of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, relative to integrating and applying a more global approach to helping individuals functionally adapt to challenges in their environments. The book will be used by faculty and students in those advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology, counseling, or social work that cover such areas as introduction to counseling, counseling skills and techniques, counseling theories, multi-cultural awareness and counseling, and stress management.
Integration and Application of Culturally Diverse Approaches to Managing Stress
The integration and application of the wisdom of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism to individuals in a counseling context is guided by the Daoist teachings of beginning points, simplicity, and commonalities. These Daoist teachings allowed for the creation of a bamboo bridge, constructed from the knowledge of evolutionary theory and evolutionary psychology, stress and the stress response, and stress management, from which one can view human psychological difficulties as chronic stress generated by an inability to functionally solve adaptive problems in their environmental contexts. Since the root of the problem is chronic stress, the solution is to manage the stress. From the perspective of the bamboo bridge, ...
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