Clinical Practice With Chinese Persons With Severe Depression: A Normalized, Intrgrated, Communicative, Holistic and Evolving Hope Recovery (Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions)

This book focuses on persons with severe depression and formulates empathic, humanistic and effective interventions in dealing with severe depression. The NICHE approach described in this book is a prolonged and accumulative crystallisation of innovative ideas, successful interventions, genuine sharing and courageous trials in the process of clinical training and supervision. The acronym NICHE refers to normalised intervention; integrated intervention; communicating and sharing unresolved emotional complex of clients with severe depression; holistic and humane self assertion of clients with severe depression and evolving hope and meaningfulness for clients with severe depression. About the Author Kam-shing Yip,Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.