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training of clinical staff on Adlerian Therapy; handouts and activities missing
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Brief Adlerian Therapy
Are you an Adlerian Therapist?
Please complete the following quizClinical areas:
Case ConceptualizationClinical TheoryMeta-theory
Human beings are creative, thus creating their own perceptions and views of the world
Truth is created based on one’s personal perspective; therefore, it can be adaptive or maladaptiveFormal TheoryClinical StrategiesClinical Techniques
If you responded ‘yes’ to any of the questions, you might be an Adlerian Therapist!
Commonalities Clients are encouraged to overcome their feelings of insecurity,
develop deeper feelings of connectedness, and to redirect their striving for significance into more socially beneficial directions.
Using respectful Socratic dialogue, they are challenged to correct mistaken assumptions, attitudes, behaviors and feelings about themselves and the world.
Constant encouragement stimulates clients to try what was previously believed as impossible.
The growth of confidence, pride, and gratification leads to a greater desire and ability to cooperate.
The objective of therapy is to replace exaggerated self-protection, self-enhancement, and self-indulgence with courageous social contribution
Goals of Adlerian Therapy
Establish empathic relationship Equal, collaborative effort Counselor provides conditions necessary for helping
relationship Develop insight into mistaken goals & self-
defeating behaviors Understand purpose of old behavior Interpret as a lack of effectiveness
Discover alternatives & make new choices
Adlerian Therapy Techniques
Set tasks, make a commitment State goals, determine what client wants to change
Explore beliefs about self, counselor’s purpose, & expectations of counseling
Confront private logic & beliefs Discover private goals, attitudes, & beliefs Explore how these affect behaviors & their intentions,
feelings
Attend to behavior & listening
Techniques in Adlerian Therapy, continued
Goal alignment Paradoxical intention
Produce symptoms one is complaining about; become more symptomatic in order to reframe system
Reflection of feeling, empathic understanding Productive use of silence Use of tentative hypotheses & interpretation
Purpose of Brief Therapy
Clarify & resolve a narrowly focused intrapsychic conflict
Goal: provide symptom relief
Issues must be focal, limited Client selection is stringent YAVIS: young, attractive values, verbal, intelligent,
socially successful High ego strength, motivated, able to tolerate painful
affects, willing to work within therapy
Adlerian Brief Therapy
Adler originally saw clients for 20 or fewer sessions Style accommodates clients needs and style Formal course of brief therapy is both indicated
and negotiated, then brief course of treatment is followed
If long-term treatment is indicated and desired, then longer-term treatment proceeds
If at all possible, brief therapy is used
Adler BT, continued
Treatment length depends on number of factors If only one life task is addressed, therapy is
brief; if more than one then longer therapy is needed Ex: well-developed social interest can be helped in
a shorter time frame Good match between client & therapist Stressful life situations need consideration Certain types of private logic can be challenging Resistance, transference issues
Adler BT, continued
Therapist assumes client is open system striving for fulfillment Determined by interaction between innate
perceptions & early life strivings What emerges is a unified perceptual system
(i.e. master plan) called the lifestyle
Stages of ABT
Empathy-Relationship Stage Information Stage
Often concurrent with 1st stage Clarification Stage
Socratic questioning about client's core beliefs of self, others, & life
Encouragement Stage Encourage client to find courage in oneself
Interpretation & Recognition Stage
Stages of ABT, continued
Reinforcement Stage let go of selves and focus on others, tasks, &
needs of situations Community Feeling Stage
connect more with others, cooperate with them, & contribute to their welfare
Goal-Redirection Stage aspire to the ideal of what people could become
Support and Launching Stage looks forward to the unexpected in life
Stages of ABT, continued
Knowing Stage Client shares interpretations & insights
Missing Experience Stage use role-play, guided imagery, or eidetic imagery
exercises to replace past negative images with new nurturing, encouraging experiences & images
Doing Differently Stage Small, experimental steps
Comparison of Models Psychodynamic orientation
Bellak Short-Term Anxiety Provoking Psychotherapy (STAPP) (Sifneo) Time Limited Psychotherapy (Mann) Interpersonal Psychotherapy (Klerman)
Cognitive-Behavioral orientation Cognitive Therapy (Beck) Brief Behavioral Marital Therapy (Weiss & Jacobson)
Systems orientation MRI Brief Therapy Approach (Weakland)
Brief Family Therapy & Solution Focused Therapy (de Shazer)
Experiential orientation Brief Interpersonal-Developmental-Experiential Therapy (Budman) Adlerian Approach (Adler)
Applications
Examples include parenting, marital relationships, and career choice and development.
These interventions can help individuals cope with developmental milestones, life crises, and change points in their lives.
Adler developed models to be used in schools as a way to foster healthy development in children