Chapter 7

Question 1

What is the Adlerian view of the person and the implications of this perspective for the practice of group counseling?

Answer 1

• Empahasizes the social determinants of behavior rather than its biological aspects.
• Goal directness rather than origins in the past
• Purposeful rather than unconscious nature.

Question 2

What are the basic assumptions and key concepts of the Adlerian approach to groups?

Answer 2

An integration of key concepts of adlerian psychology with socially constructed systemic , and brief approaches based on the holistic model.

Question 3

What are common denominators of the Adlerian approach with the other therapeutic approaches and models?

Answer 3

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Question 4

Describe the rationale for group counseling from the Adlerian perspective

Answer 4

Problems of individuals are social in nature.

Group provides social context in which members can form a sense of belonging, receive challenges to their inferiority feelings, mistaken concepts and values at the root of the social and emotional problems.

Question 5

What are the phases of an Adlerian group?

Answer 5

Stage 1: establishing and maintaining cohesive relationships with members

Stage 2: Analysis and assessment (exploring the individual’s dynamics)

Stage 3: Awareness and Insight

Stage 4: Reorientation and Reeducation

Question 6

What is the role of the Adlerian group counselor?

Answer 6

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Question 7

How are Adlerian concepts are applied to group counseling?

Answer 7

• Members can test their subjective experience, and others in the group may validate or disagree with their worldview.

Question 8

What are the the advantages and limits of using the Adlerian approach in a school setting?

Answer 8

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Question 9

What are the advantages and limits of using the adlerian approach with culturally diverse client populations?

Answer 9

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Question 10

____: A way to facilitate shifting one’s view of a situation, enabling members to reflect on how they could be different.

Members are encouraged to enact new behaviors, that tend to invoke their strengths, assets, and abilities.

Answer 10

Acting as if

Question 11

____: “rules” in which members are asked to identify the agreements they need to have with each other in order to A. feel safe and B. to facilitate a sense of belonging and growth.

Answer 11

Agreements

Question 12

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Answer 12

Basic mistakes

Question 13

____: helping individuals identify signals associated with their problematic behavior or emotions.

Members can then make decisions that stop their symptoms from taking over.

Answer 13

Catching oneself

Question 14

____: embodies the feeling of being connected to all of humanity- past, present, and future and to be involved in making the world a better place.

Answer 14

Community feeling

Question 15

____: a person’s deeply held beliefs that can get in the way of social interest and do not facilitation useful, constructive belonging.

Answer 15

Convictions

Question 16

____: able to face and deal with life’s problems.

Answer 16

Courage

Question 17

____: the “stories of events that a person says occurred before her she was 10 years of age”

Specific indigents that clients recall along with the feelings and thoughts that accompanied these childhood incidents.

Answer 17

Early recollections

Question 18

____: “building of courage” is derived from the strengths and resources of the client>”

Used throughout the counseling process to assist clients in creating new patterns of behavior, and to develop strengths, assets, resources, and abilities.

EX: showing faith in people, expecting them to assume responsibility for their lives, and valuing them for who they are.

Answer 18

Encouragement

Question 19

____: The climate of relationships among family members.

Answer 19

Family atmosphere

Question 20

____: The social configuration of the family group, the system of relationships in which self-awareness develops.

Answer 20

Family constellation

Question 21

____: The view that everything we do is related to our fictional life goal, or the imagined central goal that gives direction to behavior and unity to the personality. An image of what people would be like if they were perfect, perfectly secure, or complete and fully actualized.

Answer 21

Fictional finalism

Question 22

____: focuses on understanding whole persons within their socially embedded contexts of family, school, and work. Are always more than the the sum of their parts.

Answer 22

Holism

Question 23

____: Is based on a holistic view of a person or also known as the adlerian approach.

Answer 23

Individual Psychology

Question 24

____: based on our appraisal of deficiency that is subjective, global, and judgmental.

Answer 24

Inferiority feelings

Question 25

____: to look inward and gain knowledge about something such as a reason that a behavior is occurring.

An awareness of the causes of one’s present difficulties.

Answer 25

Insight

Question 26

____: a technique that deals with members’ underlying motives for behaving the way they do in the here and now.

Never forced on the client and are presented tentatively in the form of hypotheses.

EX: could it be that____.
I have a hunch that I’d like to share with you____, it seems to me that____,

Answer 26

Interpretation

Question 27

____: Aspects of a persons life that shapes a person into their way of life.

A counselor can work with the client in observing this and develop a plan for counseling.

Answer 27

Lifestyle

Question 28

____: in a person’s life that are essential and requires the development of psychological capacities for friendship, and belonging, for contribution and self-worth

EX: work, love, self-acceptance, belonging, and friendship.

Answer 28

Life tasks

Question 29

____: the concept in which behavior is often the result of an underlying issue.

EX: attention getting, power struggle, revenge, or a demonstration of inadequacy or withdrawal.

Answer 29

Mistaken goals

Question 30

____: a way in which trust is established thorough a series of actions or verbal agreements to foster trust and understanding.

Answer 30

Mutual respect

Question 31

____: psychological approach that pays attention to the subjective fashion through which people perceive their world.

Includes the individual’s views, beliefs, perceptions, and conclusions.

Objective reality is less important than how we interpret reality and the meanings we attach to what we experience.

Answer 31

Phenomenology

Question 32

____: Things that a person puts above other tasks or emphasis of importance.

EX: putting one’s family’s needs over their work life needs

Answer 32

Priorities

Question 33

____: Firmly held personal beliefs that we develop in early childhood, which may or may not be appropriate flater in life. Helps explain how all of our behavior fits together, providing consistency to our actions.

Answer 33

Private logic

Question 34

____: new decisions are made, and goals are modified.

Answer 34

Reorientation

Question 35

____: the action line of community feeling that refers to the individual’s positive attitude toward and engagement with other people in the world and the individuals capacity to operate and contribute.

Answer 35

Social interest

Question 36

____: assume that people are primarily motivated by social forces and are striving to achieve certain goals.

Answer 36

Socioteleological approach

Question 37

____: to move from a felt minus position in life to a perceived plus position.

Answer 37

Striving for superiority

Question 38

____: “story of our life” the characteristic way we move toward our life goals.

Answer 38

Style of life

Question 39

____: a view in which Adler stated that humans live by goals and purpose.

Answer 39

Teleology