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The Therapy Process

■ Six conditions necessary and sufficient for personality changes to occur:
o Two persons are in physiological contact
o The first, the client is experiencing incongruence
o The second, the therapist, is congruent or integrated in the relationship
o The therapist experiences unconditional positive regard or real caring for the client
o The therapist experiences empathy for the client’s internal frame of reference and endeavors to communicate… Continue

Theoretical Foundations

■ Focus is on the person and not the presenting problem


■ Humanism
o Philosophical movement that emphasizes worth of the individual and the centrality of human values
o Attends to matters of ethics and personal worth
o Gives credit to the human spirit
o Emphasis on creative, spontaneous, and active nature of humans
o Optimistic
o Human capacity to overcome hardship and despair


■ Non-Deterministic
o Be… Continue

Adlerian Therapy Process


■ The role of the client
o Explore private logic- concepts about self, others and life
o Discover purposes of behavior or symptoms of basic mistakes associated with their coping.
o Learn how to correct faulty assumptions and conclusions


■ The Client Therapist Relationship
o Based on mutual trust, respect, confidence and alignment of goals.
o Collaborative relationship
o Develop a therapeutic contract (goals for th… Continue

Adlerian Concepts


■ Basic Mistake- faulty, self defeating perceptions attitudes and beliefs, personal myths


■ Fictional Finalism- imagined central goal that gives direction to behavior and unity


■ Holism- study of humans as integrated beings


■ Insight- special form of self awareness


■ Style of Life- individual’s ways of thinking feeling and acting


■ Complexes
o Inferiority complex- normal feelings of incompe… Continue

Social Interest


■ Adler’s most significant and distinctive concept.
■ Refers to an individual’s attitude toward and awareness of being part of the human community.
■ Mental health is measured by the degree to which we successfully share with others and are concerned with their welfare.
■ Happiness and success are largely related to social connectedness.



Role of Birth Order Psychological Positions


■ Motivates later behavior.
■ First b… Continue