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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.
Interpersonal Relationships
Interpersonal Relationships
Glasser (1998) raises significant problems regarding what he believes is a psychology that attempts to control the behavior of people. He sees this controlling type of behavior as problematic and conducive to distress for people involved in a relationship. In fact, this controlling behavior tends to destroy relationships. People become alienated and separate from each other. Glasser argues:
All unhappy people have the same problem: they are unable to get along well with the people they want to get along well with…. We need a new psychology that can help us get closer to each other than most of us are able to do now…. Our present psychology has failed. We do not know how to get along with each other any better ...
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