Try your hand at being an Adlerian Therapist

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Try your hand at being an Adlerian Therapist

• The following three slides summarise the main
  therapeutic techniques used by a therapist from
  the Alderian school.
• Review them, along with any further details you
  can get in the book and then as an exercise try
  applying them to the three test cases listed on
  the final slide.
• In each case attempt to identify any complexes,
  neurotic fictions and safeguards that the person
  might have and then consider what therapeutic
  approach you might take to help this person.
• This exercise is meant to be entirely for your
  own benefit and wont be corrected or reviewed by
  the lecturing staff. It is intended solely as a
  study aid. If you have any questions which arise
  from this exercise please do contact the
  lecturing staff and we will do our best to answer
  them.

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Adlerian Therapy
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• Therapy must treat the whole person and raise
  social interest through cooperation and
  collaboration.
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• No blame or criticism, as this just increases
  sense of inferiority.
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• Group/Family Therapy
• Birth order, first memories
• Behavioural mannerisms.
• Dream analysis
• Overcoming Safeguards

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Overcoming Safeguards
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Neurotic symptom safeguards the patient from the
experience of the inferiority feelings.
Distancing moving backward standing
still hesitation Constructing obstacles,
Experiencing anxiety Exclusion tendency
Excuses "yes,but.." "if only" Aggression
Depreciation Idealization Solicitude Accusation
and self-accusation
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Diagnose the following
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• John complains that he cant commit to any new
  relationships because his heart was broken by his
  last girlfriend. Despite her cheating on him and
  then dumping him and hes still in love with her.
• Jade complains that its impossible for her to
  find work. Employers dont give her a chance
  because shes from a rough area. On top of that
  all the lower paid jobs have been taken by
  immigrants willing to work for pennies.
• Sam complains that he just cant seem to get his
  head around the content of his psychology
  courses. Hes started to ditch lectures or miss
  them because he is overtired or hung over from
  the previous nights partying. He tells people
  hes just not smart enough to keep up.