Adlerian Therapy (Individual Psychology) Alfred Adler

Psychodynamic / Holistic / Humanistic Influence

Inferiority Complex:

Motivation stems from striving to overcome feelings of inferiority

Striving for Superiority

Healthy drive for growth and mastery

Lifestyle:

Core beliefs and strategies developed early in life

Social Interest:

A sense of belonging and contributing to the welfare of others

Birth Order:

Influences personality development

Fictional Finalism:

Future goals drive present behavior

conciouness is the enter of personality and

people are often driven by social motivation

adlerian tips

Techniques:

• Lifestyle assessment (early recollections, family constellation)

• Encouragement

• Reframing mistaken beliefs

• Interpretation

• "The Question" (What would be different if…?)

Goals:

• Help client develop a healthy, realistic lifestyle

• Increase social interest

• Challenge and replace faulty thinking and goals

• Foster encouragement and responsibility

emphasis the uniqueness of the person

focus on the positive view of the person

more social forces than biological

people are in control of their own fate

people learn the lifestyle young

conscious is the center of who we are

goal challenge the patients faulty notations that are stopping them being completed in society

the relationship is based on a contract between client and therapies they both share equal parts

limitation because the basic concepts are vague its hard to back it up scientifically

inside image of what we think we like to be like

holism seeing people as integrated being rather than a set of personality traits

life task we all have to figure something out

overall