Studies primarily describe cultural competence training in different educational settings, including nursing, social work, pediatric, and child psychology programs (Culhane-Pera et al., 2000; Flores, Gee, and Kastner, 2000; Freed, 1998; Gamble, 2000; Lindquist, 1990; Rankin and Kappy, 1993; Ricardo and Holden, 1994; Salcido and Garcia, 1997; Sublette and Trappler, 2000). Some discussed differen...

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This article describes self-cultivation practices originating from the cultural traditions of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. It delineates the therapeutic implications of the three states of self pursued by these three traditions: namely, the relational self, the authentic self, and the nonself. Several psychotherapy techniques derived from each of these traditions are discussed in the con...