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5010 Mid Adlerian
5010 Midterm - Adlerian Concepts
Question | Answer |
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Fictional finalism | an imagined central goal that guides a person’s behavior. Adler replaced this term with “guiding self-ideal” and “goal of perfection” to account for striving towards superiority |
Lifestyle | connecting of themes and rules of interaction that unify all our actions |
Social interest | action line of one’s community feeling, and it involves the individual’s positive attitude toward other people in the world. |
Early recollections (ER) | stories of events that a person says occurred once before he or she was 10 years of age |
Phenomenological approach | view the world from the client’s subjective frame of reference |
Oldest child | birth order, Receives a good deal of attention |
Oldest child | birth order,Tends to be dependable, hard working |
Oldest child | birth order,When new sibling arrives, no longer feels unique or special and feels robbed of love |
Second child | birth order, Competitive with first born |
Second child | birth order,Has a knack for finding out elder sibling’s weak spots and striving for recognition in areas that the elder sibling fails in |
Second child | birth order,Often opposite to the first born |
Middle child | birth order, Feels squeezed out and that life isn’t fair |
Middle child | birth order, Assumes a “poor me” attitude and can become a problem child |
Middle child | birth order, May become the switchboard or peacemaker in families with conflict |
Youngest child | birth order,Tends to be the most pampered one since they have a special role to play |
Youngest child | birth order,Tend to go their own way and develop in unexpected ways |
Only child | birth order,Shares some characteristics of oldest child (high achievement drive) |
Only child | birth order,May not learn to share or cooperate with others |
Only child | birth order,Learns to deal well with adults |
Only child | birth order,Usually pampered and becomes dependent on one or both parents |
Only child | birth order,May need to have center stage at all times |
Establish the proper therapeutic relationship, Assessment, Insight into Purpose, and Reorientation/reeducation | Four central objectives/phases |
Establish the proper therapeutic relationship | stage, Efficacy of therapy is predicated upon the development/maintenance of a solid relationship |
Establish the proper therapeutic relationship | stage, Focus is on the person (subjective perspective), not the problem |
Establish the proper therapeutic relationship | stage, Identifying/clarifying goals |
Assessment | stage, Explore the psychological dynamics operating in the client |
Assessment | stage, Focus is on social and cultural context |
Assessment, Subjective interview | client telling life story |
Assessment, Objective interview | obtaining factual information such as medical history, social history, how problem began, any precipitating events, why therapy now?, etc. |
Assessment, Family constellation | investigating family dynamic and experience |
Assessment, Early recollections | represent metaphors for our current views |
Assessment | stage, Development of integrated summary of the data collected |
Insight into Purpose | stage, Encourage the development of self-understanding |
Insight into Purpose | stage, Therapist interprets the findings of the assessment to promote insight |
Insight into Purpose | stage, Insight acts as a foundation of change |
Insight into Purpose | stage, Interpretation deals with client’s underlying motives for their behavior |
Reorientation/reeducation | stage, help the client make new choices |
Reorientation/reeducation | stage, Clients are encouraged and challenged to develop the courage to take risks and make changes |
Reorientation/reeducation | stage, Involves shifting of rules of interaction, process, and motivation |
Reorientation/reeducation | stage, Client’s translate their new insights into concrete actions which happens between sessions |
Reorientation/reeducation | stage, Action-oriented phase |
Family Counseling | application, emphasis on family constellation, holism, and freedom of therapist to improvise |
Group Counseling | application, inferiority feelings can be challenged and counteracted effectively in groups; group provides the social context in which members can develop a sense of belonging, social connectedness, and community |
Couples Counseling | application to enhance communication and cooperation, foster social interest, assist couples in decreasing feelings of inferiority and overcoming discouragement |
Couples Counseling | application to help couples modify their view and goals, help couple to feel a sense of quality in their relationship, provide skill-building opportunities |
Education | application providing teachers with ways to prevent and correct basic mistakes of children |
Parent Education | application, taught to recognize the mistaken goals of children and to use logical and natural consequences to guide children towards more productive behavior |
building friendships, establishing intimacy, and contributing to society | These basic tasks are so fundamental that dysfunction in any one of them is why people seek therapy |
private logic | concepts about self, others, and life that constitute the philosophy on which an individual’s life is based |