Adlerian Key Terms Flashcards
What is Adlerian Brief Therapy?
An intervention that is concise, deliberate, direct, efficient, focused, short-term, and purposeful.
What are Basic Mistakes?
Faulty, self-defeating perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs that may have been appropriate at one time but are no longer useful.
What is Birth Order in Adlerian psychology?
Adler identified five psychological positions from which children tend to view life: oldest, second of only two, middle, youngest, and only.
What is Community Feeling?
An individual’s awareness of being part of the human community, embodying the sense of connection to all humanity.
What are Early Recollections?
Childhood memories (before the age of 9) of one-time events that are considered as capsule summaries of a person’s present philosophy of life.
What is Encouragement in therapy?
The process of increasing one’s courage to face life tasks, used throughout therapy to counter discouragement.
What is Family Atmosphere?
The climate of relationships among family members.
What is Family Constellation?
The social and psychological structure of the family system, including birth order, sibling characteristics, and parental relationships.
What is Fictional Finalism?
An imagined central goal that gives direction to behavior and unity to personality.
What is Goal Alignment?
Congruence between the client’s and counselor’s goals and the collaborative effort of two persons working equally toward agreed-upon goals.
What is the Holistic Concept?
The idea that all aspects of a person must be understood in relation to each other.
What is Individual Psychology?
Adler’s term for his approach to understanding the whole person, emphasizing interconnected dimensions.
What are Inferiority Feelings?
The early determining force in behavior; the source of human striving and creativity.
What is Insight in therapy?
Awareness that facilitates meaningful understanding within a therapeutic relationship.
What is Interpretation in therapy?
Understanding clients’ underlying motives for their behavior in the present.
What are Life Tasks?
Universal human challenges, including friendship, work, and intimacy.
What is Lifestyle?
Core beliefs and assumptions organizing one’s reality, forming a conceptual framework.
What is Lifestyle Assessment?
The process of gathering early memories to understand a client’s goals and motivations.
What is an Objective Interview?
An assessment gathering basic information about a client’s life for lifestyle analysis.
What is the Phenomenological Approach?
Focus on how people perceive their world, emphasizing interpretation over objective reality.
What is Private Logic?
Basic convictions and assumptions underlying a client’s lifestyle, explaining behavioral patterns.
What is Reorientation in therapy?
Helping clients adopt a more functional perspective and encouraging changes in their lives.
What is Social Interest?
A sense of identification with humanity, belonging, and concern for the common good.
What is Striving for Superiority?
The inclination toward competence, self-improvement, and perfection.
What is Style of Life?
An individual’s way of thinking, feeling, and acting; their personality framework.
What is a Subjective Interview?
The process where a counselor helps clients narrate their life story comprehensively.
What is The Question in therapy?
Used in initial assessment to explore the purpose of symptoms, asking about life without the symptom.
