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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.
Introduction
Introduction
To hold that which is still is easy
To plan for that which does not have omens is easy
To break that which is brittle is easy
To scatter that which is small is easy
Act before something arises
Govern/heal before there is disorder
A tree that you can wrap your arms around is produced from a sprout
A terrace nine levels high rises up from a clump of dirt
A thousand-mile journey begins with the first step
To act on something is to spoil it
To put limitations on something is to lose it
Therefore the naturally integrated person
Does not interfere [wu wei], thus nothing is spoiled
Does not put limitations, thus nothing is lost
In their interactions in the world people are nearly successful, yet they spoil them
Be attentive of the end as if it ...
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