Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
22 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Striving for success and superiority as one dynamic force Social Interest Subjective Perceptions Style of Life Creative Power |
Main tenets of Individual Psychology |
|
|
Ruling Getting/Leaning Avoiding Socially-useful |
4 Major Lifestyle Types |
|
|
Exaggerated Physical Defects Pampered Style of Life Neglected Style of Life |
External Factors of Maladjustment |
|
|
Excuses Aggression Withdrawal |
Safeguarding Tendencies |
|
|
Hesitating Standing Still Creating Obstacles Moving Backwards |
Withdrawal (4) |
|
|
Responsibility and Creativity Teleology Phenomenology Holism Social Embeddedness |
Philosophical Foundation |
|
|
Humans are motivated primarily bu social relatedness rather than sexual urges Behavior is purposeful and goal oriented Consciousnesa more than unconsciousness |
Focus of Adler's Psychotherapy |
|
|
Inferiority feelings can be a wellspring of creativity, they motivate us to strive for mastery, success and completion |
Positive side of Inferiority feelings |
|
|
Life Goals |
Unifies personality and becomes the source of human motivation. All the striving and every effort is now in line with this goal. |
|
|
We have the capacity to interpret, influence and create events |
Unlike Freud, Adler believed that... |
|
|
Adler was the first systemic therapist |
He understands that it is essential to understand people within the systems in which they live |
|
|
Adlerian Counseling is Phenomenological |
View client's situation based on client's frame of reference |
|
|
Subjective Reality |
Individual's way in which they perceive their own world. It includes perceptions, thoughts, feelings, values, beliefs, convictions and conclusions. It is our own interpretation and meaning to the reality thay we experience. |
|
|
Individual (Indivisible) Psychology |
Person must be understood in whole because all dimension of a person interconnected and unified towards a life goal. |
|
|
Individual psychology is holistic |
All aspects and dimensions of our life must be understood in relationship to the social context. The client is an integral part of a social system. More emphasis on interpersonal relationships than internal psychodynamics |
|
|
Adler assumes that all behavior are goal-oriented and purposeful |
We can only be understood depending on the goal that we have, or the goal toward which we are striving. |
|
|
Fictional Finalism |
Imagined life goal that guides a person's behavior |
|
|
The moment we feel inferiority, we are pulled by the striving for superiority |
Inferiority and striving |
|
|
Lifestyle |
Guide each person's movements through life, organize one's reality and giving meaning to life events. |
|
|
Social Interest |
Community feeling |
|
|
Collaboration between the client and the therapist Mutual Respect Holistic psychological investigation/lifestyle assessment Disclosing mistaken goals/faulty assumptions with the person's style of living. |
Therapeutic Goals |
|
|
Develop the client's social interest Reduce feelings of inferiority |
Main aim of Adlerian Counseling |
