Clinical Practice with Chinese Persons with Severe Depression

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 crystallization of innovative ideas, successful interventions, genuine sharing and courageous trials in the process of clinical training and supervision. The acronym NICHE refers to normalized 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.