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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.
Stress and the Stress Response
Stress and the Stress Response
The second component of the bamboo bridge is stress and the stress response. We first examine the classical Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian experience regarding stress and the stress response. Having provided the reader with a concrete sense of the experience of stress within the context of classical Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism, the Western perspective is presented and explored.
Buddhism
What is meant by the Noble Truth of dissatisfaction/chronic stress [dukkha]? Birth is dissatisfying/stressful, old age is dissatisfying/stressful, sickness is dissatisfying/stressful, death is dissatisfying/stressful, anxiety, depression and anger are dissatisfying/stressful, resenting and hating is dissatisfying/stressful, being separate from pleasure is dissatisfying/stressful, not getting what you seek is dissatisfying/stressful. This simply means that the five heaps/aggregates [the sense of self] ...
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