Adler

Question 1

what does adler believe about your past v. present?

Answer 1

Past influences the present –first 6 years of life are important

Question 2

what does it mean to say “we have the capacity to choose”?

Answer 2

our influence on our behavior/thoughts go beyond genetic and environment

Question 3

what does adlerian therapy stress?

Answer 3

social, systemic, and humanistic

Question 4

what is Phenomenological thinking?

Answer 4

each person sees situations from a unique point of view (subjective reality; object is not as important)

Question 5

what does it mean to be holistic?

Answer 5

unity and indivisibility of the person; all aspect of a person have to be understood in relationship (context)

Question 6

adlerian therapy strives for?

Answer 6

success, mastery, completion – Inferiority feelings as a catalyst
(compensation)

Question 7

what is your teology?

Answer 7

goal oriented- think, feel, and act in relation to your goal

Question 8

what is your fictional finalism?

Answer 8

imagined life goal that guides a person behavior (replaced with guiding self-ideal) – “only when I am perfect can I be accepted,” “only when I am important can I be accepted.

Question 9

what do these fictions do?

Answer 9

may help a person feel powerful and justify the rightness of their selfish choices, although at the same time cause others harm and injustice and destroy relationships

Question 10

adler says people are motivated by?

Answer 10

more by their expectations of the future than they are by the past

Question 11

where do you get the ideas in your fictional finalism from?

Answer 11

people act as much from accepted ideals as they do from observed reality. Whatever the subconscious mind accepts as true, it acts as if it is true whether it is or not

Question 12

what is your private logic?

Answer 12

Concepts about self, others, and the world on which the client’s lifestyle is based – “I am basically unlovable,” “people can’t be trusted.”

Question 13

what is your lifestyle?

Answer 13

Characteristic way of thinking, feeling, acting, living as we strive towards our long-term goals

Question 14

what is your social interest?

Answer 14

being as concerned about others (empathy) as one in about oneself; sign of mental health

Question 15

what is your community interest?

Answer 15

feeling connected to all of humanity; Life tasks (social task-friendships, love-marriage-intimacy, occupational task-contributing to society)

Question 16

your community interest has a connection to?

Answer 16

your social interest, “social interest is the action line of community feeling”

Question 17

what are your life tasks?

Answer 17

social task -> friendships
love task -> dating, intimacy
work task -> contributing to society

Question 18

what is birth order?

Answer 18

• Oldest: Dependable and hard working; compensates by becoming a model child and exhibiting a high achievement drive
• Second (only two): Competitive, opposite to the first-born
• Middle child: “poor me,” problem child or peacemaker in dysfunctional families
• Youngest child: Pampered and spoiled, helplessness as an art form
• Only child: Similar to first-born, but does not learn to share or cooperate; Needs to be the center of attention.

Question 19

what is the main aim?

Answer 19

increase sense of belonging

Question 20

clients aren’t sick they’re…..?

Answer 20

discouraged; discouraged people do not act in line with social interest.