Adlers Individual

Psychology
Alfred Adler
The approach of Adler in
counseling and
psychotherapy focuses on the
role of cognition in
psychological functioning.
Adlerian counseling focuses on four goals:
 establishment and maintenance of
an egalitarian relationship

analysis of clients lifestyle

interpretation of clients lifestyle in a

way that promotes insight

reorientation and reeducation of the

client with accompanying behavior
change
 Phases Description

First Phase: Establishing the Relationship

Effective listening skills are

Use of listening skills necessary to promote mutual
trust and respect.

can increase the clients

Winning respect and offering motivation towards becoming
hope involved in counseling

Gives the feeling of support to

Encouragement the clients which can help
believing in themselves.
Second Phase: Performing Analysis and Assessment
Lifestyle analysis
Dream Analysis may be used
to conduct lifestyle analysis
Third Phase: Promoting Insight
Insight Process
Identify clients strengths that
may be utilized to overcome the
clients problems.
A method to see dreams as an
attempt to deal with difficulties
and challenges of life
A method that allows clients to
understand the dynamics of self-
defeating patterns and utilize the
insights to rectify the said
patterns during the orientation
process.
Phase four: Reorientation
Spitting in the Clients Soup
The push-button techniques
Catching Oneself
A method that involves
determining the pa-off if the
game and interpreting it to the
client
The push-button symbolizes the
amount of control clients can
exert when they push the button
and put the stop to self-defeating
processes.
A method used to avoid old
defeating patterns such as humor
when the clients catch
themselves. Counselors may
encourage clients to learn to
laugh at their self-defeating
tendencies.

Acting as-if
Task setting and commitment
A method that advances can-do
spirit and a self-fulfilling
prophecy, which can help clients
experience success. It invoves
acting as if the client can do
whatever s/he wants.
A method that provides a
structure as homework
assignment which can be useful
in instilling the values of effort to
change
Thank you!!!