ALFRED
ADLER
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Lifestyle analysis
Motivation Modification
Techniques to reorient client from basic mistakes
Overgeneralization
False or impossible goals or secure
Misrepresentation of Life and Life’s demands
Minimization or denial of one’s worth
Faulty values
Table of
Contents!
Introduction
Topic Features
Short background of
Adler’s Individual
Psychology
Lifestyle Analysis
Motivation
Modification
Techniques to Reorient
Client
Activity
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Introduction
Alfred Adler’s Individual
Psychology
Introduction
Individual Psychology
presents an optimistic
view of people while
resting heavily on the
notion of social
interest, that is, a
feeling oneness with
all humankind.
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Lifestyle
Analysis
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Lifestyle
Analysis
Lifestyle Assessment
The style of living or
lifestyle is the unique and
self-consistent unity in
movement (thought, feeling,
action) of the individual,
created in early childhood. In
the context of genetic
possibility and environmental
opportunity (soft
determinism), organized and
given direction by the
subjectively conceived goal,
based upon guiding fictions
and following guiding lines
that are relied upon and
reinforced through training,
self-training, and the
rehearsal of character.
Adler’s Style of
Life is meant by:
The person’s
characteristic way of
operating in the
social field
The person’s selfcreated goal of
perfection or selfideal
The basic convictions
concerning self,
others and the world
actively maintained
in the person’s
schema of biased
apperception
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Motivation
Modification
On the concept of motivation,
Adler used a lot of terms such
as “feeling”, “urge”, “goal”
and “need”. There are three
stages on his motivation
theory, first is organ
inferiority; second is striving
for power and superiority; and
third is sense of belongingness
of striving to contribute in
human welfare. Regardless of
what the motivation for
striving is, people are guided
by a final goal and this is
where Adler modify motivations.
Striving Force as
Compensation
Adler believed that
inferiority feelings are
always present as a
motivating force to human
behavior. Adler proposed
“compensation” to modify
motivation. Compensation is a
motivation that drives human
to strive for higher level of
development. Through
compensation, people are more
motivated to overcome
feelings of inferiority.
10%
50%
40%
Relationship
building
Identification of
basic mistakes and
insight
Reorientation
Remember an unpleasant
incident that they have
experienced and become aware
of the feeling connected on
it
Remember an unpleasant
incident that they have
experienced and become aware
of the feeling connected on
it
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Techniques to
Reorient Clients from
Basic Mistakes
What Clients do in Therapy?
● Explore private logic-concepts
about self, others, & life –
philosophy lifestyle is based
● Discover purposes of behavior
or symptoms and basic mistakes
associated with their coping
● Learning how to correct faulty
assumptions & conclusions
Therapeutic
Techniqus and
Procedures
Establishing the
Relationship
• Exploring the
psychological dynamics
operating in the clientassessment
• Encouraging development
of self-understandinginsight into purpose
• Helping client make new
choices reorientation &
reeducation
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Mozak’s Five Basic Mistakes
1. Overgeneralization-
“there is no fairness in the world”
2. False
or Impossible Goals or Secure- “I must please everyone
or I am to feel loved”
3. Misrepresentation
difficult for me”
of Life and Life’s demands- “Life is very
4. Minimization
or Denial of One’s Worth and Faulty Values- “I’m
basically stupid, so why would anyone want anything to do
with me”
5. Faulty
Values- “I must get to the top regardless of who gets
hurt in the process”
The 4 Stages of Adlerian Therapy
1. Engagement-
a trusting therapeutic relationship is built when
therapist and the person in therapy 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 overall lifestyle pattern, including factors that
might initially be thought of as a insignificant or orrelevat
by the person in therapy.
3. Insight-
the client 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.
Mozak’s Five Basic Mistakes
1. Overgeneralization-
“there is no fairness in the world”
2. False
or Impossible Goals or Secure- “I must please everyone
or I am to feel loved”
3. Misrepresentation
difficult for me”
of Life and Life’s demands- “Life is very
4. Minimization
or Denial of One’s Worth and Faulty Values- “I’m
basically stupid, so why would anyone want anything to do
with me”
5. Faulty
Values- “I must get to the top regardless of who gets
hurt in the process”
Advantages of Adlerian Theory
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It can be used for numerous issues and disorders.
encouragement.
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It is phenomenological.
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It does not consider people to be predisposed to anything.
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Applicable to diverse populations and presenting issues
Uses
Disadvantages of Adlerian Theory
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Difficult to learn (e.g., making dream interpretations)
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Works best with highly verbal and intelligent clients. This
might leave out many people who do not fit that category.
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Might be too lengthy for managed care.
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Adlerians do not like to make diagnoses
Adlerian Approaches Today
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Education
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Parent Education
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Marriage Counseling
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Family Counseling
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Group Work
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