Clients with an Eastern orientation tend to place high value on:
- Family or group satisfaction instead of individualistic satisfaction.
- Parent-child bond instead of marital bond.
- Harmony and interpersonal relationship instead of self-fulfillment or self-development.
- Spiritualism instead of materialism or consumerism
- Harmony with nature instead of mastery over it.
- Authoritarianism instead of democratic orientation.
- Suppression of emotions instead of open expression of emotions.