Main description:

* Provides the only practical resource available to teach Buddhism as a complete counselling model.
* The book will benefit western students by offering a non-western approach to counselling, raising their multicultural sensitivity to different assumptions about mental health.
* Includes contemplative exercises, practise exercises, a list of Buddhist and psychological techniques for the Buddhist counselling model, plus additional reading suggestions.

Contents:

1. Brief History of Buddhism as an Indigenous Psychology 2. Buddhism and Science: Implications to Buddhist Counseling 3. Major Theoretical Assumptions in Buddhist Counseling 4. Overview of the Note, Know, Choose Intervention Model 5. Buddhist Spiritual Formation as a Counselor 6. Assessment in Buddhist Counseling 7. Buddhist Counseling Case Conceptualization 8. Intervention and Techniques: Note 9. Intervention and Techniques: Know 10. Intervention and Techniques: Choose 11. Termination 12. Ethical Considerations in Buddhist Counseling