Humanistic Buddhism, family values and family counseling
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Author
An-Hue, Thich See all items with this value
Date
2001
Volume
2
Pages
61-79
ISSN
1530-4108 See all items with this value
Abstract
Tried and approved methods of psychotherapy and counseling play upon the attention, activities and aspirations of human beings in various stages of psychological transformation. Some offer an arena whereby Humanistic Buddhism (HB) can become the mode for skilled and receptive interchange between the counselor-helper and client, the one being helped (in this transformation) on a journey in process to improved mental health. The approach of HB is a natural method to be used by the therapist in assessing family values and counseling families. I propose in this paper what can morally and effectively be set out as Buddhist principles for conducting psychotherapy. The impact of (individual) person-therapy upon the whole of a family unit is a consideration not to be overlooked. This impact guides strategists in humanistic psychological terms in providing tenets of change controls, thereby assisting family members to adjust to the intra-social mechanisms of their family unit.