Adlerian Therapy Flashcards
To develop the client’s sense of belonging and to assist in adopting behaviors and processes characterized by community feeling and social interest
Therapeutic Goals
What are the goals for the educational process of therapy according to Mosak and Maniacci?
-fostering social interest
-helping clients overcome feelings of discouragement and inferiority
-modifying the clients’ views and goals—changing their lifestyle.
-changing faulty motivation
-encouraging the individual to recognize equality among people’
-helping people to become contributing members of society.
In the therapist’s function and role in Adlerian approach, TRUE OR FALSE:
Clients will feel and behave worse by discovering and correcting their basic mistakes.
False: “behave better”
Early memories provide insights into self-defeating aspects of an individual’s lifestyle and Adlerians refer to it as:
Basic Mistakes
FIve Types of Basic Mistakes (according to Mosak and Maniacci
- Overgeneralization
- False or Impossible Goals of Security
- Misperceptions of Life and Its Demands
- Minimization or Denial of One’s Worth
- Faulty Values Related to Behavior
From the 5 types of basic mistakes:
“Everyone should like me.”
“I never can do anything right.”
Overgeneralization
From the 5 types of basic mistakes:
“People want to take advantage of me.”
“I’ll never succeed.”
False or Impossible Goals of Security
From the 5 types of basic mistakes:
“Life is too hard.”
“I never get a break.”
Misperceptions of Life and Its Demands
From the 5 types of basic mistakes:
“I am stupid.”
“No one can ever like me.”
Minimization or Denial of One’s Worth
From the 5 types of basic mistakes:
“You have to cheat to get your way.”
“Take advantage of others before they take advantage of you.”
Faulty Values related to Behavior
TRUE OR FALSE:
Therapeutic process exclude summarization and interpretation where the therapist identifies the client’s major successes and mistakes, providing a point of departure for the therapeutic venture.
False: “include”
In client’s experience in therapy, these concepts such us self, others, and life that constitute the philosophy on which an individual’s lifestyle is based is called what?
Private Logic
Involves our convictions ad beliefs that get in the way of social interest and that do not facilitate useful, constructive belonging
Private Logic
TRUE OR FALSE
Core of the therapy experience consists of client discovering the purposes of behavior or symptoms and the basic mistakes associated with their coping.
TRUE
A good client-therapist relationship is based on:
cooperation
mutual
trust
respect
confidence
collaboration
goal alignment
What are the 4 phases?
Phase 1: Establish the Relationship
Phase 2: Explore the Individual’s Psychological Dynamics
Phase 3: Encourage Self-understanding and Insight
Phase 4: Reorientation and Reeducation
What is the aim of the phase 1: Establish the Relationship?
To have a solid positive therapeutic relationship between the client and the counselor.
What are the two things in phase 1: establish the relationship?
- Client-centered approach
- Willingness to change
The role of the counselor is not to impose their own agenda or perspective, but rather to facilitate the client’s exploration and understanding of their own issues.
Client-centered Approach
Counselors cannot force the client to open up and they are paying more attention to the subjective experiences of the client than they do to using techniques.
They fit their techniques
WIllingness to change
What is the aim of Phase 2: Explore the Individual’s Psychological Dynamics.
To have a deeper understanding of an individual’s lifestyle.
What are the 3 things included in phase 2: Explore the Individual’s Psychological Dynamics
Lifestyle Assessment
The Family Constellation
Early Recollections
Seeks to develop a holistic narrative of the person’s life
Lifestyle Assessment
Exploration of the client’s family constellation
The Family Constellation
One-time occurrences pictured by the client in clear detail.
those memories do not occur by chance and those have a bearing on their lives.
Early Recollections
What is the aim of Phase 3: Encourage Self-Understanding and Insight
To interpret the findings of the assessment as an avenue for promoting self-understanding and insight.
2 things included in phase 3: Encourage Self-Understanding and Insight
insight
Interpretation
“Understanding translated intro constructive action”
an understanding of the motivations that operate in a client’s life.
special form of awareness that facilitates a meaningful understanding
Insight
Deals with clients’ underlying motives for behaving the way they do in the here and now.
Interpretation
The aim of phase 4: Reorientation and Reeducation
Putting insights into practice
Phase 4: Reorientation and Reeducation is known as:
Action-oriented phase
Action-oriented techniques that lead to new patterns of behavior include the following:
-Immediacy
-Encouragement
-Acting as if
-Catching oneself
-Creating Images
-“Spitting in client’s soup”
-Avoiding the tar baby
-Push-button technique
-Paradoxical Intention
-Task-setting and Commitment
-Giving Homework
-Life tasks and therapy
-Terminating and Summarizing interview
Expressing your experiences of what is happening at this very moment in therapy.
Immediacy
“to build courage”
useful in building a relationship and in assessing client lifestyle.
Encouragement
helps the patient take an action she may be afraid of
Acting as if
Clients try to change and implement their goals
Catching oneself
A mental picture of doing something coul have much more impact than reminding oneself mentally
Creating Images
Assess the purpose of a client’s behavior and then makes comments that make the behavior less attractive.
“Spitting in Client’s Soup”
Therapist being careful when discussing a sticky issue that is significant for the client and causes problems for the client.
Avoiding the tar baby
Guiding clients to recall a pleasant memory, focusing on the associate feelings.
Push-button Technique
Clients are encouraged to develop their symptom’s even more.
Paradoxical Intention
Clients and therapist plan to take specific actions about problems
Task-setting and Commitment
Assigning homework is often done carefully so that the therapist is not directing the client’s life.
Giving Homework
May identify some issues to work on in therapy that the client has some difficulty in recognizing.
Life Tasks and Therapy
Therapist does not bring up new material, but along with the client, may summarize the interview to provide a clear picture of the counselee’s perception of the session.
Terminating and Summarizing Intervew
