Acupuncture treatment begins before the first needle is inserted. Practitioners may understand channels, point functions, diagnostic patterns, and needling techniques—yet still face a difficult question at the treatment table: Given everything I know about this patient, what should I do next? Strategic Point Selection offers a structured framework for answering that question. Rather than relying on memorized point prescriptions, Bruce Woong Park, DACM, presents acupuncture treatment as a process of clinical design: identify the dominant therapeutic problem, determine what should change, select a coherent strategy, assign each point a specific role, and evaluate the patient’s response. At the center of the handbook are the Five Levels of Clinical Attention: • Functional Balancing
 • Channel Harmonization
 • Systemic Integration
 • Symptom Modulation
 • Mental Stabilization Together, these levels help practitioners organize complex clinical information and decide where treatment attention should begin. Through practical explanations, clinical examples, decision-making tools, worksheets, checklists, and quick-reference materials, readers will learn how to: • Move from assessment and diagnosis to a clear treatment plan
 • Establish a focused and clinically meaningful objective
 • Select a lead strategy while integrating secondary concerns
 • Design concise point combinations with defined therapeutic roles
 • Use palpation and patient responses to verify or revise treatment
 • Document and explain the reasoning behind point selection
 • Adapt treatment when the clinical presentation changes Strategic Point Selection does not replace classical theory, palpation, technical skill, or professional experience. Instead, it shows how to bring these elements together in a purposeful, responsive, and teachable system of acupuncture care. Written for acupuncture practitioners, students, educators, and clinical supervisors, this fourth volume in the Mindful Acupuncture Practice Clinical Handbook Series also includes educational tools for case discussion, clinical supervision, competency development, and performance assessment. For readers seeking to move beyond fixed formulas and strengthen the reasoning behind every treatment, Strategic Point Selection provides a practical pathway from diagnosis to deliberate clinical action.