Chapter 5 Flashcards
Freudian revisionist who agreed that relational, social, and cultural factors were of great significance in shaping personality
Adlerian
These are normal and a source for all human striving; are the wellspring of creativity; develop when we are young and are characterized by early feelings of hopelessness
Inferiority feelings
Promote mastery and enable us to overcome obstacles
Superiority feelings
The world as seen from the client’s subjective frame of reference
phenomenological
The individual way in which people perceive the world
subjective reality
Strives to understand the world from the client’s vantage point
Adlerian
Takes a holistic approach that we must understand ourselves in socially embedded contexts, rather than in parts; assumes that all human behavior has a purpose in relation to achieving our goals–the guiding self-ideal
Individual Psychology (Adlerian)
Developed as a kid; an idealized version of self
Fictional finalist or guiding self ideal
perceptions regarding self, others, and the world (starts at ages 4-6)
Lifestyle
Adler’s most significant and distinctive concepts (2)
Social interest and community feeling
3 Universal life tasks to be mastered (Adlerian)
Building friendships (social task)
Establishing intimacy (love-marriage task)
Contributing to society (occupational task)
BIRTH ORDER & SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS:
Receives more attention, spoiled, center of attention
Oldest
BIRTH ORDER & SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS:
behaves as if in a race, often opposite to the first born
Second child of only two
BIRTH ORDER & SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS:
often feels squeezed out
Middle child
BIRTH ORDER & SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS:
does not learn to share or cooperate with other children, learns to deal with adults
Only child