10. Compassionate Presence: Buddhist Practice and the Person-Centred Approach to Counselling and Psychotherapy
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | 10. Compassionate Presence: Buddhist Practice and the Person-Centred Approach to Counselling and Psychotherapy - Spirituality and Wellbeing |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Rebecca Seale; Coleg Sir Gar; |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Religious Studies |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | spiritual experience; wellbeing; health; spirituality and health; mindfulness; mindfulness-based cognitive therapy; Buddhism and mental health; Buddhist practice; Buddhism and psychotherapy |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | Spirituality; Health |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | At the heart of Buddhist teaching is the importance of facing the suffering inherent in human existence and in so doing the path to well-being also becomes illuminated. One aspect of this eight-fold path is mindfulness, a practice gaining an increasingly wide-spread popularity in the West. In the field of counselling and psychotherapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is one of the best known approaches combining Buddhism and therapy. In a medicalised culture that increasingly pathologises everyday human experience of birth, sickness, aging and death, attempts to promote well-being through combining such differing paradigms as mindfulness and Western psychotherapy, whilst fitting in well with the medical model’s need for easy-to-measure approaches, may miss the wider context of Buddhist practice. With its emphasis on a way of being with clients in therapy, the person-centred approach does not sit comfortably within a medical model. Drawing on a small-scale qualitative research study, this chapter will explore how Buddhist practice through the cultivation of presence within a person-centred approach can promote well-being in a therapeutic relationship in a way that offers the potential for a holistic synthesis of Buddhism and psychotherapy. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 15-Mar-2020 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
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| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/35873 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.35873 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Spirituality and Wellbeing |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) | |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |