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