Adlerian Theory Flashcards
Adler’s Individual Psychology assumes what 4 things about people?
Assumes that people:
- Are motivated by social factors
- Are responsible for their own thoughts, feelings, and actions
- Create their own destiny (are not just helpless victims of their past)
- Are driven by purposes and goals, looking more toward the future than back toward the past.
What is the goal of Adlerian therapy?
- To help clients identify and change their mistaken beliefs about themself, others, and life, enabling them to participate more fully in the social world.
- Clients are challenged to translate insights into real-world action.
How is the way clients are viewed according to Adlerian theory different from the way they’re viewed in Psychodynamic theory?
- In Adlerian theory, clients struggle because they are discouraged.
- In Psychodynamic theory, clients struggle because they are psychologically ill.
Describe the therapeutic process in Adlerian theory.
Client’s are taught to observe and identify their patterns
Why is Adlerian theory described as an integrative approach?
Because Adlerian theory combines cognitive, constructivist, existential, psychodynamic, relational, and systems theory perspectives.
What makes Adlerian theory flexible and integrative?
- Adlerian therapy can be applied to a diverse range of clients and a variety of settings.
- Therapists focus on doing what is best for clients instead of trying to fit the client within a specific theoretical framework.
Adlerian theory is well-suited for ____, ____-_____ therapy.
brief, time-limited therapy.
What is a criticism of Adlerian Theory?
Many terms used are vague, making the theory difficult to research empirically.
How did Adler contribute to the world of counseling? What are two pros of Adlerian therapy?
Many of Adler’s ideas were revolutionary for the time, and were influential in counseling.
Adlerian therapy is:
- flexible and integrative in nature.
- well-suited for brief, time-limited therapy
