1. Adlerian Therapy

2. Adler’s Theory of Personality
These four factors impact the development of personality.
Lifestyle
Social interest
Birth order
Inferiority and Superiority

3. Lifestyle The lifestyles are based on 1. Social interest
2. Degree of activity and energy

4. Four types of lifestyles
the Socially Useful type
the Ruling type
the Getting type
the Avoiding type

5. Social Interest Social interest: _________________
Community feeling: _______________

6. Birth Order Oldest child: ____________ Second of only two: ___________
Middle: ____________
Youngest: _____________
Only child: _________________

7. Inferiority and Superiority
The striving for __________ is natural.
Superiority is to __________ in order to overcome ______________.
People may try to present themselves ____________ when they actually ____________.

8. View of Human Nature
Stress __________, _____________, and the ____________________.
Focus on _______________---motivated to become successful (superiority)
Focus on __________________

9. Basic Mistake (Private Logic)
Overgeneralizations
False or Impossible goals of security
Misperceptions of life and life’s demands
Minimization or denial of one’s basic worth
Faulty values

10. Personality priorities (see handout)
Superiority (or significance)
Control
Comfort
Pleasing

11. Therapeutic Goals Building a _______________________
_________________ is the most powerful method for a person to change
Changing ______________________ (private logic, self-defeating behaviors)

12. Therapist’s function and role
Identify ____________________________
Conduct ______________
Focus on ___________________
Develop____________________

13. Client’s Experience in Therapy
Are not aware of __________________
Do not know ___________________
Fear of letting go _______________ for unpredictable _______________
Cling to _____________ although they are maladaptive

14. Relationship b/w Therapist & Client
Cooperation, mutual trust, respect
Making a contract with clients
Write down __________________
What is preventing __________________
How to change _____________________
How to make ______________________

15. Therapeutic Techniques & Procedures
1. Establishing the relationship
Deeply ____________________
Identify ____________________
Increase _______________________
Focus on ______________________ (basic mistake or private logic)

16. Therapeutic Techniques & Procedures
2. Exploring _______________________
through
Family dynamics and Constellation
Early Recollections
Dream
Basic mistake or private logic and its motivation
Personality priorities

17. Therapeutic Techniques & Procedures
3. Encouraging self-understanding and insight
Insight: ______________________________
Disclosure and interpretations: _____________________________________

18. Therapeutic Techniques & Procedures
4. Helping with reorientation
Putting _____________________
Increasing ___________________
Decreasing ____________________

19. Therapeutic Techniques & Procedures
4. Helping with reorientation
Encouragement
Search for __________________
Making_________________

20. From multicultural perspectives: contributions
Social equality, sensitive to cultural and gender issues
Focusing on a person in a __________context
Social interests, sense of belonging, cooperation (instead of competition)
Focusing on ___________
Subjective experience (unique world of a person)

21. From multicultural perspectives: limitations
________as the locus of change may be problematic for some clients
Detailed ___________________ may violate some cultural values
Some clients may expect therapists to _____________________ to the problems

22. Summary and evaluation: contributions
Integrative, short-term, psycho-educational focus, and combining system and cognitive perspective
Forerunner of ___________ and _____________________ of psychology

23. Summary and evaluation: Limitations
Too ____________
Limited ______________________
Limited for clients who
seek _____________, have __________________, and who do __________________________________