Clinical Practice with Chinese Persons with Severe Depression

Kam-shing Yip,Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

Preface; Chapter One: Beyond the Symptoms of Depression; Chapter Two: The NICHE Model: Values, Concepts and Practice; Chapter Three: N = Normalized Intervention: Facilitating Clients for Normal Life and Activities; Chapter Four: I = Integrated Intervention: Enabling Clients for Integration in Community Interaction; Chapter Five: C = Communicating and Sharing Unresolved Emotional Complex of Clients with Severe Depression; Chapter Six: H = Holistic and Humane Self Assertion of Clients with Severe Depression; Chapter Seven: E= Evolving Hope and Meaningfulness for Clients with Severe Depression; Conclusion: Meeting the Challenges in Working with Severe Depression By the NICHE approach; References; Index