Approach 3. Adlerian Approach

Question 1

Therapeutic Goals of Adlerian Therapy

Answer 1

• develop the client’s sense of belonging
• to assist in adopting behaviors and processes characterized by community feeling and social interest

Question 2

Mosak and Maniacci (2008) goals for the educational process of therapy

Answer 2

❃ Fostering social interest
❃ Helping clients overcome feelings of discouragement and inferiority
❃ Modifying clients’ views and goals—that is, changing their lifestyle
❃ Changing faulty motivation
❃ Encouraging the individual to recognize equality among people
❃ Helping people to become contributing members of society

Question 3

Adlerian therapeutic approach

Answer 3

operates on the assumption that clients will feel and behave better by discovering and correcting their basic mistakes

Question 4

core of the therapy experience

Answer 4

discovering the purposes of behavior or symptoms and the basic mistakes associated with their coping

Question 5

a good client-therapist relationship in Adlerian Therapy is…

Answer 5

based on cooperation, mutual trust, respect, confidence, collaboration, and goal alignment

Question 6

Client-Centered Approach

Answer 6

facilitate the client’s exploration and understanding of their own issues.

Question 7

Therapeutic Procedure in Adlerian Therapy

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Aim in Phase 1: Establish the Relationship

Answer 8

To have a solid Positive Therapeutic Relationship, between the client and the counselor, during the first phase of the therapy

Question 9

Aim in Phase 2: Explore the Individual’s Psychological Dynamics

Answer 9

Aim: To have a deeper understanding of an individual’s lifestyle (Lifestyle Assessment Family Constellation, Early Reollections)

Question 10

Aim in Phase 3: Encourage Self-Understanding and Insight

Answer 10

To interpret the findings of the assessment as an avenue for promoting self-understanding and insight

Question 11

Aim in Phase 4: Reorientation and Reeducation

Answer 11

putting insights into practice or the action-oriented phase

Question 12

Action-oriented techniques that lead to new patterns of behavior

Answer 12

• Immediacy – expressing experience of what is happening at the very moment; discrepancies, contradictions, resistance
• Encouragement – to build courage; instill a sense of faith
• Acting as if – “act as if” action will work
• Catching oneself – (while implementing goals) “catch themselves” doing behaviors they desire to change
• Creating images – mental picture of doing something as means to motivate
• Spitting in the client’s soup – making comments that make behavior less attractive
• Avoiding the tar baby – being careful when discussing a sticky (tar) issue
• Push-button technique – demonstrates ability to control/change feelings by consciously choosing the focus of thoughts
• Paradoxical intention – encouraging to develop symptoms even more to become more aware of the real nature of the situation
• Task setting and commitment – taking specific actions; determining best way to implement it; best if relatively brief + likelihood of success is high
• Giving homework – done carefully to avoid directing client’s life
• Life tasks and therapy – identify some unrecognized issues to work on in therapy; measure change and progress in achieving therapeutic goals
• Terminating and summarizing the interview – summarizing the interview to provide a clear picture of counselee’s perception of the session