Adlerian Therapy

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Adlerian Therapy
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Adlers Theory of Personality

• These four factors impact the development of
  personality.
• Lifestyle
• Social interest
• Birth order
• Inferiority and Superiority

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Lifestyle

• The lifestyles are based on
• 1. Social interest
• 2. Degree of activity and energy

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Four types of lifestyles

• the Socially Useful type
• the Ruling type
• the Getting type
• the Avoiding type

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Social Interest

• Social interest _________________
• Community feeling _______________

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Birth Order

• Oldest child ____________
• Second of only two ___________
• Middle ____________
• Youngest _____________
• Only child _________________

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Inferiority and Superiority

• The striving for __________ is natural.
• Superiority is to __________ in order to overcome
  ______________.
• People may try to present themselves ____________
  when they actually ____________.

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View of Human Nature

• Stress __________, _____________, and the
  ____________________.
• Focus on _______________---motivated to become
  successful (superiority)
• Focus on __________________

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Basic Mistake (Private Logic)

• Overgeneralizations
• False or Impossible goals of security
• Misperceptions of life and lifes demands
• Minimization or denial of ones basic worth
• Faulty values

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Personality priorities (see handout)

• Superiority (or significance)
• Control
• Comfort
• Pleasing

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Therapeutic Goals

• Building a _______________________
• _________________ is the most powerful method for
  a person to change
• Changing ______________________ (private logic,
  self-defeating behaviors)

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Therapists function and role

• Identify ____________________________
• Conduct ______________
• Focus on ___________________
• Develop____________________

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Clients Experience in Therapy

• Are not aware of __________________
• Do not know ___________________
• Fear of letting go _______________ for
  unpredictable _______________
• Cling to _____________ although they are
  maladaptive

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Relationship b/w Therapist Client

• Cooperation, mutual trust, respect
• Making a contract with clients
• Write down __________________
• What is preventing __________________
• How to change _____________________
• How to make ______________________

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Therapeutic Techniques Procedures

• 1. Establishing the relationship
• Deeply ____________________
• Identify ____________________
• Increase _______________________
• Focus on ______________________ (basic mistake or
  private logic)

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Therapeutic Techniques Procedures

• 2. Exploring _______________________
• through
• Family dynamics and Constellation
• Early Recollections
• Dream
• Basic mistake or private logic and its motivation
• Personality priorities

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Therapeutic Techniques Procedures

• 3. Encouraging self-understanding and insight
• Insight ______________________________
• Disclosure and interpretations
  _____________________________________

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Therapeutic Techniques Procedures

• 4. Helping with reorientation
• Putting _____________________
• Increasing ___________________
• Decreasing ____________________

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Therapeutic Techniques Procedures

• 4. Helping with reorientation
• Encouragement
• Search for __________________
• Making_________________

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From multicultural perspectivescontributions

• Social equality, sensitive to cultural and gender
  issues
• Focusing on a person in a __________context
• Social interests, sense of belonging, cooperation
  (instead of competition)
• Focusing on ___________
• Subjective experience (unique world of a person)

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From multicultural perspectiveslimitations

• ________as the locus of change may be problematic
  for some clients
• Detailed ___________________ may violate some
  cultural values
• Some clients may expect therapists to
  _____________________ to the problems

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Summary and evaluationcontributions

• Integrative, short-term, psycho-educational
  focus, and combining system and cognitive
  perspective
• Forerunner of ___________ and ____________________
  _ of psychology

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Summary and evaluationLimitations

• Too ____________
• Limited ______________________
• Limited for clients who
• seek _____________, have __________________, and
  who do __________________________________