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. Contents: Series Editor's Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS Ch 1: Evolutionary Theory and Evolutionary Psychology Ch 2: Stress and the Stress Response Ch 3: Stress Management PART II: CULTURALLY DIVERESE APPROACHES TO MANAGING STRESS Ch 4: Buddhism and Stress Management Ch 5: Daoism and Stress Management Ch 6: Confucianism and Stress Management PART III: INTEGRATION AND APPLICATION OF CULTURALLY DIVERSE APPROACHES TO MANAGING STRESS Ch 7: Underlying Cultural Assumptions Ch 8: Rapport Ch 9: Thinking Ch 10: Feeling Ch 11: Behaving Ch 12: Interpersonal Relationships Ch 13: Spirituality Index About the Author |