Adlerain Therapy

Question 1

Telological

Answer 1

Goal directed view of human nature

Question 2

What is the focus of Adlerian therapy?

Answer 2

Motivated by social relatedness rather than sexual urges.

- Purposeful and goal directed
- Consciousness rather than unconscious.
- Reeducation individuals and reshaping society.

Question 3

Phenomenological

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Individual Psychology

Answer 4

• 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.

Question 5

Holistic concept

Answer 5

We cannot be understood i parts; rather all aspects of ourselves must be understood in a relationship.

Question 6

Basic assumptions of Individual Psychology

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

Fictional Finalism

Answer 7

An imagine life goal that guides a persons behavior.

Question 8

Lifestyle

Answer 8

• 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.

Question 9

Social Interest

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

Community Feeling

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

Universal Life Tasks

Answer 11

• 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.

Question 12

Birth Order

Answer 12

• 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.

Question 13

The oldest child

Answer 13

• 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.

Question 14

The second child

Answer 14

• 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.

Question 15

The middle child

Answer 15

• 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.

Question 16

The youngest child

Answer 16

• The most pampered.

- May develop helplessness

Question 17

The only child

Answer 17

• Shares some of the characteristics of the oldest child.
• May not learn to share or operate with her children.
• Deals with adults well.
• Mat become dependent on parents as they have pampered the child.

Question 18

The main therapeutic goal

Answer 18

• For the client to develop a sense of belonging and to assist in the adoption of behaviours and processes characterised by by community feeling and social interest.
  
  • A collaborate process.
  • Not curing a sick person, though working together to better society and reiterate the person back into the community.
  • Moves away from the pathology.
  • fostering social interest.
  • Hoping clients overcome feelings of discouragement and inferiority
  • Modifying clients views and goals
  • Changing faulty motivation
  • encouraging the individual to recognize equality among people.

Question 19

Family constellation

Answer 19

Parents, siblings, and others living in the home, life tasks, and early recollections.

Question 20

Early recollections

Answer 20

ER’s are defined as stories of events that a person says occurred one time before he or she was 10 years old.

Question 21

Lifestyle assessment

Answer 21

Learning to understand the goals and motivations of the client. Targets for therapy are then set.

Question 22

Private logic

Answer 22

• This is explored by the client and includes concepts about the self, others, and life that constitutes the philosophy on which an individuals life style is based.
  
  • The conclusions based on this private obi do not conform to social living and therefore problems arise.
  • Our conditions and beliefs get in the way of social interest.
  • We think, then we feel, then we act: Emotions and cognitions serve a purpose, a goo deal of time in therapy is is set discovering and understanding this purpose and reorienting the client toward effective ways of being.

Question 23

Phase 1: Establish the Relationship

Answer 23

• Collaborative approach
• Clearly defined goals
• Person-To-Person contact rather than staring with a “problem”
• Listening
• Responding
• Faith, hope, caring
• Attention to the subjective experience of the client rather than techniques.
• Provide structure and assist in goal setting.
• Assessments as interpretations

Question 24

Subjective interview

Answer 24

The counsellor hips to the client to tell his life story as complete as possible.

Question 25

Objective interview

Answer 25

Seeks to discover information about a) how problems in a clients life began b; any precipitating events, c) a medical history, including current and past medications, d) a social history, e) the reasons the client chose therapy this time, f) the persons coping with life tasks and g) a lifestyle assessment.

Question 26

Family constellation

Answer 26

The clients evaluation of conditions that prevailed in the family when the person was a child or young, birth order parental relationship, family values, extended family and culture.

Question 27

Early Recollections

Answer 27

• One-time occur aces usually before the age of 9.
• Small mysteries that can be woven together into a tapestry - can lead to an understanding of how we view the world, ourselves, and others. Our life goals, what motivates us
• Metaphors for our current views.
• Used as a proactive technique:
  
  • To assess the clients convictions about self, others and ethics.
  • Asses the clients stance in relation to the counselling session and relationship
  • Verify the clients going patterns.
  • Assets individual strengths assets and interfering ideas.

Question 28

Insight

Answer 28

• Understanding translated into constructive action.

- A serial form of awareness.

Question 29

Interpretation

Answer 29

Clients underlying motives for behaviour the way they do in the hear and the now.

Question 30

Reorientation

Answer 30

Involves shifting rules of interaction processes, and motivation.

Question 31

Encouragement

Answer 31

• Entails showing faith in people, expecting the to assume responsibility or their lives and valuing who they are.
  - The universal therapeutic intervention for Adlerians.
  - A fundamental attitude rather than a technique.
  - Discouragement is the basic thing that hinders people from functioning. Encouragement is the antidote.

Question 32

Making a Difference

Answer 32

• Making a difference in the lives of the clients.
• A wide range of techniques can be used, provided they are wishing the theoretical framework of the model.
• Motivation modification rather than behaviour change.
• Holistic changes in the useful side of living.