Counselling and Therapy in China: Ancient Times to the Present

The first concise book-length review of counselling in China for an international audience, this book provides a historical acocount of the development of counselling in mainland China and an up-to-date survey of the current situation. Each chapter introduces and reviews key tenets of counselling in China, connected to the country’s cultural and social background, and will serve as a point of entry in to the primary literature. The chapters will feature academic level material, and written primarily from a scholarly perspective. Though an academic review and not a skills development book, apart from serving the interests of academic researchers worldwide in the growing field of cross-cultural psychology, readers of the book will also include Western counselling practitioners who are interested in extending their knowledge of culture and health beyond the Western perspective in order to address the needs of ethnically diverse populations in their own practice.