Adlerain Therapy Flashcards
Telological
Goal directed view of human nature
What is the focus of Adlerian therapy?
Motivated by social relatedness rather than sexual urges.
- Purposeful and goal directed - Consciousness rather than unconscious. - Reeducation individuals and reshaping society.
Phenomenological
Viewing the word form the first person. The first person frame of reference or structures of consciousness.
- Subjective Reality.
- Perceptions, thoughts, feelings, values, beliefs, convictions, and conclusions.
- The meaning we attach to this subjective understanding is far more important that objective reality.
Individual Psychology
- From the Latin (Individuum) meaning indivisible. Avoiding reductionism. Understanding the whole person in the context of his or her life.
- Interconnected components moving towards a life goal.
Holistic concept
We cannot be understood i parts; rather all aspects of ourselves must be understood in a relationship.
Basic assumptions of Individual Psychology
We can only think for and act in relation to our life goal. We can be only be fully understood in light of and knowing our purposes and goals of which we are striving.
Fictional Finalism
An imagine life goal that guides a persons behavior.
Lifestyle
- Connecting themes and rules of interaction that give meaning to life events.
- Our perceptions regarding self, others and the world.
- The individuals characteristic ways of thinking, feeling, acting and living.
- The diving towards long term goals.
Social Interest
Is the action line of ones community feeling and involves being concerned about others as one is about oneself.
- identification and empathy with others. - The central indicator of mental health. - Once our social interest increases our inferiority and alienation diminishes.
Community Feeling
Embodies the feeling of being connected to all of humanity -past, present, and future - and to be involved in making the world a better place.
- Those who lack community feeling become discouraged and end up on the useless side of life. - If our sense of belonging is not fulfilled, anxiety will result.
Universal Life Tasks
- Building friendships (Social task).
- Establishing intimacy (Love-Marriage task).
- Contributing to society (Occupational task).
- Impairment in one or more of these areas is often an indicator or a psychological disorder.
- Fundament to human living.
Birth Order
- Is not a deterministic concept, but does not increase an individuals probability of having a certain et of experiences.
- The birth order itself is less important that the individuals interpretation of it.
The oldest child
- The centre of attention when the only child.
- dependable and hardworking, serves to keep ahead.
- Feels no longer unique or special when the new child arrives.
- May feel life her love and attention is robed by the newcomer.
- Will therefore become the model child.
The second child
- Shares the attention with the only child form the time she is born.
- Believes she is in a race and generally under full steam.
- Points out the weak spots of the older child
- Strives to succeed where the older child has failed.
- Often the opposite to the firstborn.
The middle child
- Often feels squeezed out.
- Convinced of the unfairness of life and feel cheated.
- May adopt a keeping the peach role and act as mediator.
- Often adopts a poor me role.