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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.
Confucianism and Stress Management
Confucianism and Stress Management
Confucius (551–479 BCE) lived during the end of the Spring and Autumn Periods (770–476 BCE) of the Zhou dynasty (1122–256 BCE).1 He was married with two children, a boy and a girl, and held a position, which he left, as police commissioner/minister of justice in his home state of Lu. Essentially, though, Confucius was a wandering teacher who visited a number of kingdoms offering his teachings.
The period in which Confucius lived was a time of continual warfare between various kingdoms, political instability, and social change. (See Ames & Rosemont, 1998, and Hsu, 1965.) It was a time of chronic stress. The teachings of Confucius were offered as a solution to assist the ruler in ruling and to teach ...
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