Individual Psych, pt. 2 (3)

Question 1

What is the main goal of Adlerian therapy?

Answer 1

Help clients increase sense of belonging and increase behaviors more centered on social interest and community feeling

Question 2

Name a couple of additional goals of Adlerian therapy.

Answer 2

Replace clients’ feelings of discouragement and inferiority with self-confidence and courage & Alter clients’ lifestyles through modification of goals and perspectives

Question 3

What is private logic?

Answer 3

The inner rationale we use for justifying our lifestyle and the way to achieve our goals

Question 4

What is the client-counselor dynamic in Alderian therapy?

Answer 4

Egalitarian

Question 5

What are the four phases of Adler’s model?

Answer 5

1) establishing a collaborative therapeutic relationship
(2) assessment, analysis, and understanding of the person and the problem;
(3) encouraging clients’ self-understanding and insight; and
(4) reorientation by turning insight into action and focusing on assets (strengths) rather than weaknesses

Question 6

What are the six key domains of assessment?

Answer 6

Identifying information,
background,
current level of functioning,
presenting problem,
expectations for counseling,
and the summary.

Question 7

What is style of life?

Answer 7

A way of seeking to fulfill particular goals that individuals set in their lives

Question 8

Name some common ways of behaving.

Answer 8

• Ruling and dominating others
• Avoiding challenges
• Pleasing and seeking approval from others
• Controlling and managing
• Depending on others/needing to be cared for
• Pursuing superiority and perfection
• Seeking achievement
• Being a martyr or victim
• Seeking comfort
• Promoting social welfare and progress.

Question 9

Describe “The Question” technique.

Answer 9

Allows clients to create goals and to start thinking about possible solutions for their problem. Therapists ask clients, “How would your life be different if you no longer had this problem?” “What if you had a magic wand,” or “Let’s say you woke up and suddenly didn’t have this problem anymore. What would you notice?”

Question 10

Describe catching oneself.

Answer 10

Enhance clients’ awareness and self-control by helping them to catch themselves when they slip into old, unproductive behaviors. Help clients to identify warning signs or triggers that a negative experience is about to occur. View the warning signs as stop signs that remind them to pause and redirect themselves.

Question 11

Describe pushing the button

Answer 11

Encourage clients to alternately imagine pleasant and unpleasant experiences, observe the emotions that accompany each image, and recognize that they can determine which button to push (the pleasant or the unpleasant button).

Question 12

Describe spitting in the client’s soup.

Answer 12

Identify the underlying motivations behind clients’ self-defeating behaviors or experiences and then spoil their imagined payoff by making it unappealing.

Question 13

Describe the Immediacy technique.

Answer 13

Addressing an interaction between the client and the therapist and/or their experiences with the client in the present moment. Often these experiences mirror the client’s interactions outside the session

Question 14

Describe Prescribing the symptom/Paradoxical intention.

Answer 14

Invite clients to engage in the problem behavior. The goal of prescribing the symptom is to help clients realize the problem behavior, become aware of the consequences to the behavior, and recognize that it is within their control to change it.

Question 15

Describe Confrontation.

Answer 15

Point out discrepancies or incongruencies in the material that clients present.

Question 16

Describe Task Assignments

Answer 16

Clients and therapist agree that the clients will engage in a planned activity that will help them reach their goal.

Question 17

Describe Acting “as if”

Answer 17

Asks clients to act “as if” they were already the person they would like to be, or “as if” their situation was what they wanted.

Question 18

Describe reflecting “as if”.

Answer 18

Ask clients to reflect how they would act if they were acting like the person they would like to be.

Question 19

Describe an aha response.

Answer 19

Clients become aware of their own beliefs and behaviors and suddenly develop understanding. Notice this awareness and use encouragement and reinforcement to help clients explore their own strengths and encourage aha moments.

Question 20

What is reorientation?

Answer 20

clients changing their lifestyles by altering their rules of interaction and their behaviors.

Question 21

What are the four parts of reorientation?

Answer 21

1. Clients clarify their goals and determine whether they are realistic.
2. Common sense and clear thinking are applied to clients’ feelings, beliefs, and goals.
3. New learning is applied to the clients’ lives.
4. Any barriers to progress are addressed and removed.

Question 22

What are some additional helpful techniques for creating insight and supporting behavior change?

Answer 22

Socratic questioning, creative activities that highlight social connections, role plays, and systematically reframing thoughts to produce healthier feelings and behaviors.

Question 23

What CARE stand for regarding parenting?

Answer 23

Catch themselves and avoid acting impulsively and emotionally in difficult situations
Assess the goals of a child’s behaviors(social needs)
Respond in empathic, encouraging ways.
Executed consistently

Question 24

What are three pillars of Adlerian play therapy?

Answer 24

(1) enhance their social interest;
(2) overcome or reduce their feelings of inferiority; and
(3) make changes in their life goals and mistaken beliefs about self, others, and the world

Question 25

According to Adler, how does prejudice, racism, and gender discrimination grow?

Answer 25

Out of misguided efforts to gain superiority by degrading others.

Question 26

What are some limitations of Adlerian therapy?

Answer 26

lack of empirical research;
fails to account for biological or genetic influences.
overly optimistic in his belief that social interest is innate

Question 27

What therapies developed from Adlerian therapy?

Answer 27

Cognitive therapy, reality therapy, person-centered counseling, Gestalt, existentialist, and constructivist approaches.

Question 28

What are the four steps of recovering early recollections?

Answer 28

Eliciting the recollections.
Processing each memory.
Analyzing the memories.
Interpretation and application.