Intro to Theories of Therapy

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Intro to Theories of Therapy

• Adlerian Therapy

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Theory of Personality

• Lifestyle types
• Socially useful type
• Ruling type
• Getting type
• Avoiding type

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Theory of Personality

• Social interest
• Used as a means of measuring psychological health
• Inferiority and Superiority
• Individuals try to overcome physical
  inferiorities by psychological adjustments
• Superiority complexes (the abnormal ones) are
  used to overcome inferior feelings
• Birth order
• Family is a microcosm of society
• Perceived role more important than actual birth
  order

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Theory of Personality

• Five main tasks in life

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Adlerian Therapy

• Goal Increase of clients social interest
• Four processes
• Relationship
• Assessment and analysis
• Interpretation of clients comments
• Reorientation

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Process one Relationship

• Respect and mutual trust
• Goals are directed by the client
• Often clients try to sabotage therapy, the
  therapist can either ignore the efforts or
  present them in an educational way
• Empathetic
• Beliefs result in feelings

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Process two Assessment and Analysis

• Family dynamics and constellation
• Early recollections (ages 4 or 5)
• Need as much detail as possible
• Memories do not occur by chance

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Process two Assessment and Analysis

• Dreams
• Clients are encouraged to share dreams
• Often indicate persons lifestyle
• Symbols do not have fixed meanings in dreams
• Basic mistakes come from early
  recollectionsrefers to the self-defeating
  aspects of an individuals lifestyle
• Overgeneralization
• False or impossible goals of security
• Misperceptions of life and lifes demands
• Minimization or denial of ones worth
• Faulty values
• Assets

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Process three Insight and interpretation

• After gathering information, the therapist
  interprets the material so that patients can
  develop insights into their own actions

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Process four Reorientation

• This is where clients begin to make change
• Techniques that lead to new patterns of behavior
• Immediacy
• Encouragement
• Act as if
• The question
• Spitting in the clients soup
• Push-button technique
• Homework