Ch. 5: Adlerian Tx
Counseling Theories
Page 5 of 7
Diagram of Adlerian Therapy
Goals of Adlerian Therapy:
• Establish intimacy
• Contribute to society
• Building relationships
In Adlerian counseling, the client/therapist relationship s is characterized by cooperation,
respect, and equality.
An Adlerian
therapist particularly
values modeling of
communication in
social minded ways.
In helping clients to
examine their mistaken
and faulty assumptions.
An Adlerian therapist uses
encouragement,
reorientation and
reeducation, and openended interpretations.
Adlerians believe that
discouragement is the basic
condition the prevents people
from functioning and can be
overcome by encouragement.
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By asking how best
to change, the client
is encouraged to
“act as if” they were
already where they
want to be.
The client’s core
experience in Adlerian
therapy consists of
discovering their basic
mistakes and the learning
how to correct them.
Fictional finalism in an imagined
life goal that guides the client’s
behavior. While their private logic
provides a psychological unity,
the philosophy of their lifestyle,
and does not conform to the
reality of social living.