Adlerian theraphy
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ADLERIANAPPROACH
Adlerian Counseling
OAdlerian Counseling includes individual, developmental, and social psychology.
OIt focuses on human wellness, individual growth and expansion, and social interest .
OIt is aimed at helping the client lead a socially useful life by encouraging the re-alignment of the individual interests with that of society.
OIt is humanistic, holistic, phenomenological, teleological, field-theoretical, and socially-oriented.
OThe interpretation is upon purpose and not upon cause, upon movement and not upon description.
OThe main goal of the Adlerian Counseling process is to aid the client to realize his priorities and to decide whether or not it is worth paying the price behaviorally to change his present life style.
OThe process enables the client to gain insight into himself and to eventually take courage to risk some personal safety for social usefulness, greater happiness and satisfaction in life.
Assessment Techniques
Family Constellation
OIn therapy, Adler almost always asked patients about their family constellation, that is, their birth order, the gender of their siblings,
and the age spread between them.OOne of Adler’s most enduring contributions is the idea that order of birth
is a major social influence in childhood, one from which we create our style of life.
Position Positive Trait Negative Trait
Oldest Child Good organizers, nurturing, protective
Exaggerated feeling of power; unconscious hostility; fights for acceptance; must always be “right“
Position Positive Trait Negative Trait
whereas others are always “wrong” highly critical of others; uncooperative
Position Positive Trait Negative Trait
Second/ Middle Child
Highly motivated cooperative
Highly competitive, Early discouraged
Youngest Child
Realistically ambitious
Pampered style of life, dependent on others
Wants to excel in everything Unrealistically ambitious
Only Child Socially Mature
Exaggerated feelings of superiority Low feeling of cooperation inflated sense of self Pampered style of life.
Early RecollectionOAdler believed that reports by patients of their earliest memories provided valuable insights into their unique styles of life.
Early RecollectionOThey still revealed important meanings, and gave glimpses into the person’s strivings for superiority.
Early Recollection
OThe primary interest of the person’s life revolved around the remembered incidents.
Early Recollection Theme:
Adult Personality
Memories of beatings, abandonment by one or both parents (emotional deprivation)
Alcoholic, Depressed
Early Recollection
Theme:
Adult Personality
Accidents, losing parents either temporarily or permanently, or being bullied by other children
Highly anxious individuals
Punishment /Danger
Hostility
Birth of a sibling Sense of dethronement
Memories focused on one parent
Preference for that parent
Dream Analysis
ODreams are goal-oriented rather then reflections of the past.
Dream Analysis
OThey reveal the mood that we want to feel and suggest how we might deal with the future problem or task.
Basic Terminologies
CompensationOOur innate attempts to overcome our real or imagined inferiorities.
CompensationOWe are driven by the need to overcome this sense of inferiority and to strive for increasingly higher levels of development.
INFERIORITY COMPLEXOExaggerated feeling of personal inferiority
OHave poor opinion of themselves
OFeelings of helplessOInability to cope with the demands of life
Superiority Complex
OThis involves an exaggerated opinion of one’s abilities and accomplishments.
Superiority Complex
OBoasting, vanity, self-centeredness, and a tendency to denigrate others.
Style of LifeOA unique pattern of characteristics, behaviors, and habits.
OEverything we do is shaped and defined by our unique style of life.
OThe style of life becomes the guiding framework for all later behaviors OAdler suggest that the style of life is so firmly crystallized by the age of 4 or 5 that it is difficult to change thereafter.
Social Interest
OThe individual’s innate potential to cooperate with other people to achieve personal and societal goals.
OThe only gauge to be used in judging the worth of a person.
OIt is the standard to be used in determining the usefulness of a life.