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    Adlerian therapy is based on the theories of Alfred Adler who believed that understanding individuals within their social context was important. He founded the Society of Individual Psychology and his concepts came to be known as Adlerian psychology. Adler believed in exploring personal factors like birth order and lifestyle to understand a client's context. He thought all individuals strive for belonging and significance. Adlerian therapy recognizes internal factors like goals and perceptions and investigates a client's lifestyle and interactions with society. The therapist aims to reeducate the client by challenging misperceptions to increase feelings of belonging and social interest.

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    Adlerian therapy is based on the theories of Alfred Adler who believed that understanding individuals within their social context was important. He founded the Society of Individual Psychology and his concepts came to be known as Adlerian psychology. Adler believed in exploring personal factors like birth order and lifestyle to understand a client's context. He thought all individuals strive for belonging and significance. Adlerian therapy recognizes internal factors like goals and perceptions and investigates a client's lifestyle and interactions with society. The therapist aims to reeducate the client by challenging misperceptions to increase feelings of belonging and social interest.

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    Adlerian Therapy

    Alfred Adler, a world renowned philosopher and psychologist, understood the


    need to perceive individuals within their own social context; because of this, Adler
    founded the Society of Individual Psychology. Today, his concepts and ideas are
    referred to as Adlerian psychology- the psychodynamic field of psychology.
    Adler began by focusing on the worlds philosophical attention on relatively new
    ideas in the early twentieth century. He believed that it was necessary to become
    familiar with a clients context by exploration of personal factors, like lifestyles, birth
    order, and parental education. Adler concluded that all individuals wish to belong
    and feel significant. Because of this, Adler was a pioneer in the area of holistic
    theory (the theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be
    understood except in their relation to the whole).
    Through his perspective of holistic therapy, he believed that a person would be
    more responsive and cooperative when that person is encouraged and harbors the
    feelings of adequacy and respect; in other words, when ways of expression are for
    the positive influences of encouragement, that persons feelings will increase in
    fulfillment and optimism. On the other hand, when a person is discouraged or
    defeated, that person will feel discouraged and will most likely display
    disadvantageous behaviors that display competition, defeat, and/or withdrawal.
    Adlers different approach to therapy assumes that humans are socially motivated
    and that their behavior is directed towards a goal and is purposeful. Adler trusted
    that feelings often motivate people to strive for success, or can be the epitome of
    their despair. Alfred Adler stressed the conscious over the unconscious, and his
    therapy affirms biological and environmental limits to choice, but was not
    deterministic (the doctrine that all facts and events exemplify natural laws).
    Adlerian therapy recognizes the seriousness of internal factors, like perception of
    reality, values, beliefs, and goals. This therapy investigates a clients lifestyle, and
    the way he reacts with society.
    How one interacts with the world based on an awareness of the human community,
    are social interest and community feeling- both emphasized by Adler. To him, a
    mental health sign is a social interest, so the more a client would feel connected to
    others, and partook in a shared, wholesome activity, his sense of inadequacy would
    decrease.
    By identifying misperceptions and misdirected goals of the client, a therapist can
    then reeducate his client with the anticipation that the clients feelings of belonging
    and level of social interest will increase. An Adlerian therapist encourages selfawareness (conscious knowledge of one's own character, feelings, motives, and
    desires) challenges adverse perceptions, and emboldens his client to act on his own
    to manage life tasks and take part in communal activities.

    Sources:
    goodtherapy.org
    gotquestion.org
    Alfredadler.edu
    Freedict.com

    Extra Credit for Psychology


    Natalie Robison
    8/6/2014

    Adlerian Therapy

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