Adlerian Individual Therapy

MACALIPAY, Ma. Lourdes A.SY 1149

A d l e r i a n I n d i v i d u a l T h e r a p yPrincess Macalipay

PHASE 1: ESTABLISH THE RELATIONSHIP

Making Positive, Warm connection with clients

Focuses on strengths, abilities and better ways of coping

Improve sense of belonging Becoming meaningful contributors to the

community

PHASE 2: EXPLORE THE INDIVIDUAL’S PSYCHOLOGICAL DYNAMICS

Aim: To get a deeper understanding of an individual’s lifestyle.

Assess level of social interesto Worko Communal life and friendshipo Love relationshipso Self-acceptanceo Spiritualityo Parenting

Style of life: Private logic The family constellation and sibling position Early recollection DSM diagnosis

Lifestyle Assessment Parenting style Family Constellations and Birth Order Early recollection Basic Mistake Organ Inferiority/ Physical Weak points “The question”: Function of Symptom Dreams

Parenting Style: Pampering and NeglectQuestions for Assessing Parenting Style

Describe your relationship to your parents as a child? Where they indulgent? Strict? Inconsistent? Supportive?

How did you get what you needed? How did you get what you wanted?

Did you have favourite strategies for getting your way?

Which child was able to influence your parents the most? The least?

How did your parents get along? In what did they both agree? How did handle disagreement? How did they discipline the children?

Family Constellations and Birth Order

>A. Member of your Family origin: 1. Give name and brief description of each family

member including yourself.o Parents and Siblings :D

>B. Data on Client as a child:1. Who was most like you? In what ways?2. Who was most different from you? In what ways? 3. Grade school information:

a. Attitude about school?b. Favorite subject?c. Least liked subject?d. Social situation?e. Teachers pet?

4. Sports interests or skills?5. Childhood habits?6. When a child, who had health problems, physical or

emotional?7. As a child, did you feel that boys or girls had

advantages over the other?8. F: Were you a tomboy in childhood?

M: Did you think yourself as a sissy?9. Childhood spiritual or religious experiences, if any?10. Did you, or any family member(s), experience any

abuse (within or outside the family)? give the client option to pass if so desires at this time.

a. Emotional- Yes/ NoPhysical- Yes/ NoSexual- Yes/ No

b. If so:Who? By whom?/ Elaborate

11. Who was most spoiled? By whom? How and for what reason?

12. Who was most punished? By whom? How and for what reason?

13. Who in the family need to be right? / Explain14. Who in the family felt keen about fairness and

unfairness?/ Explain15. Your role in peer group? (leader, middler, follower,

outsider)? Explain16. Childhood talents or accomplishments? Who was the favorite child? What were you like as a child? Sibling closest in age and most different is the sibling

that most affects how one define the sellf. Assess birth order: oldest child, second child, middle

child, youngest child, or the only child.C. Sibling Interrelationships: **Paki-explain

1. Who took care of whom?2. Who played with whom?3. Who got along best with whom?4. Who fought and argued the most?5. Who was helpful at home?

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6. Who made mischief?D. Description of your parents and step parent (if applicable)

1. Current age if living2. If deceased, when?3. Age when client born4. Education5. Personality: traits admired, liked, disliked, feared6. What was most important to them?7. What behaviour or attitude was most important to

them?8. What behaviour or attitude coulf win their praise?9. What made them angry10. What ways did they influence you?11. What were their expectations of the children? Did

you go along with or do opposite?12. Relationship with the children?13. Relationship with you?14. Which child was most like each parent? How?15. Were you distant from either parent? Why?16. In whom did you confide in/ closest to?17. To whom did you go from comfort/ support? Why?18. What kind of relationship did your parents have?19. Who was dominant, made decisions; overt or

covert?20. Did they agree on discipline and raising the children?21. Method of discipline used?22. Did they quarrel openly? About what?23. How did the quarrels end?24. How did your parents solve problems?

E. Additional adult figure who had a significant influence on your childhood

Who? Describe the relationships How did it influence you?

F. Conclusion about life; Considering your answers (A-E), what did you learn about what conclusions you made as a child about:

Yourself? What males are like? What females are like? What marriage/ relationship is like? What parenting is like? What family life is like?

G. Childhod AttributeUsing the following childhood Attribute Assessment, rate yourself and your siblings from the perspective you had as a child.

-/+ age (including yourself) H/L

H. ChecheBurecheA. Self Concept

What I am/ do What I like My self image

B. Self ideal What I want to be/should be What I ought to do My self ideal

C. Environmental Evaluation: “Life is” What men, women, people

are What the world, life is like What I expect from people,

lifeD. Ethical Convictions: Ethical & moral “I

should” What I expect from myself &

others.

II. DevelpomentA.Sexual Development:

1. When did you first notice your sexual development?2. How did you feel about it? Why?3. Were you prepared for it?4. When did you first have; F-menstration? M-

nocturnal emission?a. Were you prepared for it?b. How did you feel about it? Why?

5. If a boy, Were you told you should have been a girl?If a girl, were you told you should have been a boy?

6. As an adult have you experienced any sexual problems?

7. What is your sexual orientation?a. Heterosexualb. Homosexualc. Bi-sexuald. Trans-sexual

How do you feel about your orientation?B. Physical Development:1. Any childhood health problems? If so, how were you treated by others?

2. How did you see your body image?3. Did you have any disabilities?

Early Recollections: Minimum of 3 memories When you think back over your childhood, what are

your earliest memories (generally before the age of 7)

I would like to hear about your early memories. Think back when you were very young, as early as you can remember (before the age of 10), and tell me something that happened one time

What part stands out to you What was the most vivid part of your early memory like a movie and stopped it at one frame, what would be happening? Putting yourself in that moment, what are you feeling? What’s your reaction?

What were you feeling at that time? What were others feeling?

What did you understand or not understand about what was going on? What were others thinking?

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What do you think you learned from this experience?

Collect:o The Dream

o The feelingo The reason for the feeling

o The most vivid moment/snap shoto The feeling at that momento The reason for that feeling

Basic Mistake: Faulty Assumptions1. Overgeneralizations: Exaggeration of contextual

truths into global all-or-nothing truthso E.G. All men are the same.

2. False/ impossible goals of security: try to remove all risk from life. Making unreasonable demands on others.

o E.g. “If you love me, you will never hurt me”3. Misperceptions of life and demands: Not

understanding inescapable rules of life.o E.g. People die, survival takes effort

4. Minimization of denial of one’s basic worth: sense of personal inferiority and deny intrinsic worth.

o E.g. “Why would anyone want to love me; I am inherently flawed.”

5. Faulty values: As way of coping with life.o E.g. “ If I am successful enough and achieve

enough, people will have to love me.” Organ Inferiority/ Physical Weak Points

Physical problems Beliefs one is physically inferior

Dream Analysis Dreams provide insight into a client’s inner process. Clues to help analyse client’s style of life and identify

potential solutions/ Meaning of dreams, specific to client. Client has the final determination of the

interpretation. Childhood Fears? Childhood Ambitions:

As a child, how did you answer, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”

Three Wishes: (At this point in time) Current Aspiration

The Questions “What would be different in your life if you don’t

have this problem” Client’s provides clues as to what is being avoided by having the symptoms.

Objective Interview:a) How problems in the client’s life began

b) Any precipitating eventsc) Medical history, including past and medicationsd) Social historye) The reasons the client chose therapy at this timef) The person’s coping with life taskg) A life-style assessment.

***FINAL QUESTION: Is there anything else you think I should know to understand you and your concerns?

>Integration and summary~ Parenting style Family Constellations and Birth Order Early recollection Basic Mistake Organ Inferiority/ Physical Weak points “The question”: Function of Symptom Dreams

PHASE 3: Encourage self-understanding and insightEncourage insight and self-understanding

>background (birth order, etc)>paraphrase>lifestyle

Help client gain better self-understanding Prompt insight as impetus and source of

positive motivation to take action and make changes.

Offers possible interpretationso Feelings of inferiority when

avoidance of commitment in a love relationship

Collaborate with clients to find useful, meaningful interpretations of client motivations.

> HUNCH WORKSHEET: Verified Dismissed Correct

please help the client understand the limitation of the style of life of life the client has chosen

PHASE 4: EDUCATE AND REORIENT>putting insights into practice>focuses on helping client discover>form new goals.>summarize! :)>set target>all goals should be set by the clients

Goals-Come from client; concrete; meaasurable

Involves taking action Counsellors challenge clients develop courage to make

life changes bases on their insight Person must “reorient” to life by correcting basic

mistakes in life style of life.

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