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| Underpinnings of Individual Psychology |
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| Everyone is born with a sense of inferiority, which is carried through childhood and influences the person’s life goals, beliefs, and behaviors. ● Mental health flourishes when an individual believes that they are loved and that they have worthwhile connections with others in society. |
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| Goals of Tx unique to Adler |
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Socially useful goals
Story: Between now and next session, I would suggest you do 3 things for people (research in positive psychology) |
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| Change occurs by increasing the client's level of insight/self-awareness regarding their lifestyle and through modifying their lifestyle in order to develop healthier goals and carry out life tasks in more socially constructive ways. |
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| Collaboration and mutual respect are the foundation of relationship --seeks goal alignment between therapist and client ● Accepting, encouraging, respectful, optimistic ● Co-thinker and educator |
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| Feelings of inadequacy, that individuals experience from the beginning of their lives. The feelings motivate future behaviors. As a consequence, much of individual growth derives from individuals attempting to overcome their real or perceived inferiorities. |
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| This is an assessment tool used in the beginning of therapy. The therapist asks the client to recall and share stories and events that occurred, or that the client believed occurred, in their life prior to the age of 10. This information assists the therapist in understanding the client’s view of themselves, others and the world. |
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| Exploration of the client’s perception of the structural and relational dynamics that prevailed in the family when the client was a young child. These perceptions are believed to form part of the client’s expectations of self, others, and life. |
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| Individuals develop a conceptual map for their future, that develops in response to experiences that occur in the first 5 years of life. This map influences the individual’s views of life, self, the world, and their future actions. |
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| An assessment tool used in the beginning of therapy. This assessment can be a more formal process (questionnaire) or less structured (clinical interview). The therapist gathers information from the client on early recollections, their goals and motivations. |
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Social Context
Social Interest
Dream Interpretation |
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| Social Context: This part of the assessment explores the effects of the individual’s social and cultural environment on their goals. ● Social Interest: This part of the assessment explores the client’s feelings of empathy toward others, their level of social engagement and sense of belonging. ● Dream Interpretation: This part of the assessment explores client’s dreams, with an understanding the dreams provide individuals with solutions to problems they are facing. |
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| Therapist shares the results of the assessment as a narrative summary that is discussed with the client. |
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| The therapist asks questions during the assessment phase of treatment designed to understand the function of symptoms and to elicit the client’s desired lifestyle. |
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| This describes the overarching attitude or way of being with clients that helps clients to build courage, identify their strengths, their sense of connectedness with others, and instills a sense of hope. |
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| In the middle stages of therapy, this type of role-playing offers clients opportunities to take on and practice new ways of existing with their feelings and behaviors, to pretend this is how they exist in the world. |
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| The therapist encourages the client to pay attention to and stop themselves when they engage in undesirable behaviors, feelings and thoughts. |
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| The therapist encourages clients to refrain from interfering with the chain of events that are taking place for other people in their lives. |
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| The therapist provides a series of verbal suggestions, asking the client to start with a focus on something pleasant, then shift to something less pleasant, and eventually back to the initial focus. |
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| Modify the client’s lifestyle and perspective ● Develop new attitude towards self and others ● Develop new life goals ● Increase contributions to society as well as social interests ● Increase the client’s sense of belonging |
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| Explore client assets and strengths. ● Complete assessment of early recollections, questionnaires, and family constellations. ● Share summary from assessment with the client. ● Focus is on dynamics that may have influenced the client’s sense of self, inferiority and the world. ● Encourage clients to allow for natural consequences to play out. ● Utilize guided imagery, specifically with the pushing the button technique. ● Utilize metaphors and images to illuminate the therapist’s interpretations. ● Encourage self-understanding and insight through interpretation. ● Collaboratively explore ways in which clients can feel more deeply connected in their social context. ● Encourage clients to take risks with new behaviors and to act as if they are the people they want to be |
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Beginning: Make person-to-person contact with clients rather than starting with “the problem”; Build rapport/Forming a relationship; Psychological Investigation; Complete assessment by looking at family constellations, lifestyle, early recollections; Provide summary of assessment. Early/Middle: Psychological Disclosure/Interpretation; guided imagery; Reorientation and re-education; Clients are positively encouraged to overcome their feelings of insecurity through therapist’s optimism. End: Terminate when clients are able to put insights into practice.
Could it be that you are being...?
Adlerian therapist will tentatively suggest |
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| Adler assisted in founding the child guidance movement in the early 1900s, a movement that took into account the role of social elements, including family, in personality development. ● Adler believed the family experiences of a person strongly influenced their development. He was concerned with the effects of sibling rivalries, family constellations, and overall lifestyle of individuals. ● Adler’s influence in systems work can be seen in the concepts noted in the bullet above, as well as in marriage enrichment programs that provide psychoeducation, education programs for parents that seek to increase compassion and cooperation between parents and their children |
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