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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 Management
Stress Management
Chapters 1 and 2 established (1) that change is a fundamental aspect of existence for evolutionary theory and evolutionary psychology and for Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism; (2) that the challenge of functionally adapting to the ever-changing environment is common to all people, across cultures; and (3) the subsequent stress response (the fight-or-flight response), also common to all people across cultures and part of the evolutionary process, is activated when a threat is perceived in the environment (internal and/or external) and maintained when the threat is not successfully removed. It was argued that both the challenge of adapting to an ever-changing environment and the chronic activation of the stress response are common to problems encountered in counseling and psychotherapy on the one hand, ...
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