ADLERIAN THERAPY ALFRED ADLER

THERAPY Is a process which a person who has been unable to go on with living without anymore fear or guilt than he is willing or able to bear, somehow gains courage to live again.

Classification of Therapy Psychologically based therapy Biomedical therapy

A. Psychologically based therapy 1. Psychodynamic a. Psychoanalysis b. Adler’s Individual Therapy c. Jungian’s Analytical Therapy d. Will Therapy

2. Hypnotherapy, a special technique of Psychotherapy

3. Behavioral Therapies a. Classical Conditioning 1. Aversion Conditioning 2. Systematic Desensitization 3. Modeling

b. Operant Conditioning 1. Token System 2. Behavior Contracting 3. Biofeedback c. Cognitive Behavior Therapy 1. Rational Emotive Therapy (RET)

a. Person-centered Therapy/Client- Centered Therapy 4. Humanistic Therapy a. Person-centered Therapy/Client- Centered Therapy b. Existential Therapy c. Group Therapy d. Gestalt Therapy

Biologically-Based Therapy (Biomedical Therapy) 1. Drug Therapy a. Antipsychotic b. Antidepressant c. Antianxiety 2. Electroconvulsive Therapy 3. Psychosurgery a. Prefrontal Lobotomy

ALFRED ADLER’S EARLY LIFE Born in Vienna in 1870 of a middle class family and died in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1937 while on a lecture tour. He had become an ophthalmologist then later psychiatrist. The one who instituted “Individual Psychology” When Adler was a child, he was sickly.

ADLERIAN THERAPY It emphasis on a person’s ability to adapt to feelings of inadequacy and inferiority relative to others. He believed that a person will be more responsive and cooperative when encourage or affirmed with feelings of adequacy and respect, but if contrast to it, he or she will display counterproductive behaviors.

Adler believed that feelings of inferiority and inadequacy may be a result of birth order, especially if the person experienced degraded experiences. Thus, it believed that this therapy pays attention on the developed childhood experience.

4 Stages of Adlerian Therapy 1. Engagement A trusting therapeutic relationship is built between the therapist and the person in therapy and they agree to work together to effectively address the problem.

2. Assessment The therapist invites the individual to speak about his or her personal history, family history, early recollections, beliefs, feelings, and motives. This helps to reveal the person's overall lifestyle pattern, including factors that might initially be thought of as insignificant or irrelevant by the person in therapy.

3. Insight The person in therapy is helped to develop new ways of thinking about his or her situation. 4. Reorientation The therapist encourages the individual to engage in satisfying and effective actions that reinforce this new insight, or which facilitate further insight.

Types of Adlerian Therapy

Therefore; inferiority acts as barrier to positive adjustment. Individual Therapy Adler’s psychotherapy gives emphasis to will power as man’s force to compensate feelings of inferiority. He felt that the feeling of inferiority leads people to compensate by striving for power and perfection – the striving for superiority. An inferiority complex results when people are overwhelmed by feelings of inferiority. Therefore; inferiority acts as barrier to positive adjustment.

a. Let the individual choose his couch Procedure: a. Let the individual choose his couch b. Start with present action and then proceed to general movement c. Deal with the immediate situation or current problem. To determine the life style, study the early formative years with all the family and interpersonal relationships. d. Give the patient insight and finally go to orientation.

Couple Therapy Adlerian psychotherapy is a constructive therapy approach whereas principle and theory approach serves as the basis for couple therapy. Further explains: 1. Relationship between couple is understood as interpersonal relationship whereas it generates either improvement in relationship or stimulate dissonance and confusion/conflict

2. “Trust only movement”. It reveals intentions, feelings, and values that influence the system. It is essential to understand the psychological movement between the couple and creates cooperation or conflict. 3. Therapists must concentrate on observing and understanding “on what each partner do in lieu of what they say.”

4. What attracts individual to each other is also the basis for their relational conflict.

He is the first psychologist of the modern era to do family therapy Adler uses the family constellation affects heavily by birth order. He said that all behaviour are significant – and child acts with a pattern motivated that he or she desires to belong.

A client’s problematic behavior may: 1. serve a function or purpose for the family 2. be unintentionally maintained by family processes 3. be a function of the family’s inability to operate productively, especially during developmental transitions, or 4. be a symptom of dysfunctional patterns handed down across generations.

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