Adlerian Therapy Flashcards
“Fictional finalism” is an adlerian term meaning:
an imagined central goal that guides our behavior
The purpose of examining a client’s family constellation is:
to get a picture of the individual’s early social world
All of the following are stages in Adlerian counseling except:
analysis of resistance
According to Adlerians, inferiority feelings:
create motivation to achieve mastery
The client’s core experience in Adlerian therapy consists of:
discovering their basic mistakes & then learning how to correct them
Which of the following did Adler NOT stress?
focus on early childhood experiences as determinants of later personality functioning
Adlerian therapy has a phenomenological orientation. Thus, the therapist attempts to view the world:
from the client’s frame of reference
Which of the following is not true about the Adlerian concept of “private logic”?
it is a result of the feelings & emotions we experience in our daily lives
Alfred Adler
First psychologist in modern era to use systematic approach; noticed birth order
Phenomenological approach
counselor pays attention to the individual way that people perceive their world, or the client’s subjective reality
Inferiority feelings
are a normal part of life and can be the wellspring of creativity because it drives people to strive for mastery (superiority) and success (completion) (Vulnerability: Relying on our human abilities and recognizing that they are insufficient.)
People must successfully master 5 tasks:
(1) Social task: build friendships (2) Love-marriage task: establish intimacy (3) Occupational task (work): contribute to society (2 more tasks that Dreikurs and Mosak added are: (4) Acceptance (getting along with self) and (5) Spiritual dimension *Dysfunction in any one of these tasks often indicates a psychological disorder
Establishing the Therapeutic Relationship
Relationship is key: based on caring, involvement, and friendship 1. Created by listening, responding, demonstrate respect, and exhibit faith, hope, and caring 2. Therapists help client gain self-worth while decreasing discouragement by providing support 3. Encouragement is very important
Analysis and Assessment
Counselors use subjective interviews (counselor helps client tell his/her story as completely as possible and extracts patterns in the person’s life, develops hypothesis about what works for the client, and determines what accounts for the various concerns of client’s life)
Adlerian therapist use
encouragement, challenges, confrontation, and tentative interpretations to examine client mistaken goals and faulty assumptions