ADLERIAN THERAPY (ALFRED ADLER)

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Inferiority feelings

  • Motivate us to strive for mastery, success (superiority), and completion

  • We  are driven to overcome our sense of inferiority and to strive for increasingly higher levels of development

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Phenomenological

Adlerians attempt to view the world from the client’s subjective frame of reference

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Subjective reality

paying attention to the individual way in which people perceive their world

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Individual Psychology

  • Avoid reductionism

  • Adler emphasized the unity and indivisibility of the person and stressed understanding the whole person in the context of his or her life

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Holistic concept

 implies that we cannot be understood in parts; rather, all aspects of ourselves must be understood in relationship

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Fictional finalism

  • refer to an imagined life goal that guides a person’s behavior

Guiding self-ideal & goal of perfection: striving toward superiority or perfection

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Lifestyle

includes the connecting themes and rules of interaction that give meaning to our actions

  • Often described as our perceptions regarding self, others, and the world

  • Includes an individual’s characteristic way of thinking, acting, feeling, living, and striving toward long-term goals

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Social interest

the action line of one’s community feeling, and it involves being as concerned about others as one is about oneself

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Community feeling

  • Embodies the feeling of being connected to all of humanity— past, present, and future—and to being involved in making the world a better place

  • Those who lack this community feeling become discouraged and end up on the useless side of life

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Early recollections (ERs)

  • “Stories of events that a person says occurred [one time] before he or she was 10 years of age” 

  • Specific incidents that clients recall, along with the feelings and thoughts that accompanied these childhood incidents

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Lifestyle assessment

learning to understand the goals and motivations of the client

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Private logic

concepts about self, others, and life that constitute the philosophy on which an individual’s lifestyle is based

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Subjective interview

  • the counselor helps the client to tell his or her life story as completely as possible

  • facilitated by a generous use of empathic listening and responding

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Objective interview

  • - seeks to discover information about (a) how problems in the client’s life began; (b) any precipitating events; (c) a medical history, including current and past medications; (d) a social history; (e) the reasons the client chose therapy at this time; (f) the person’s coping with life tasks; and (g) a lifestyle assessment

  • Family constellation, early recollections, integration and summary

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Insight

“understanding translated into constructive action”

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Interpretation

deals with clients’ underlying motives for behaving the way they do in the here and now

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Encouragement process

  • entails showing faith in people, expecting them to assume responsibility for their lives, and valuing them for who they are 

  • Change and search for new possibilities

  • Making a difference

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Reorientation

involves shifting rules of interaction, process, and motivation; change in awareness

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