Hitleran Therapy: Two Potength And Strengths Of Adlerian Therapy

Strengths of Adlerian Therapy Adlerian Therapy has several strengths that make it useful in counseling. The first strength is that it is helpful in treating clients with many different problems and disorders. As I mentioned earlier, there were studies that were done that were successful in showing that different forms of Adlerian therapy was helpful to adult males who struggled with substance abuse issues and is helpful in treating children who were being disruptive during school. However, Adlerian therapy has also been shown to be helpful in treating depression as well. (Corey, 2013) This is because Adlerian therapy focuses on a person’s ability to have and maintain healthy social relationships with other people and holds onto the notion …show more content…
This is part of the first step in using Adlerian therapy in counseling, which focuses on trying to develop an intimate personal and empathetic relationship with the client. The reason for this if this relationship dynamic does not exist then the client can have fears of being exposed for who they really are, being made fun of by the therapist, and having the counselor disapprove of them. However, when this personal relationship with the counselor does exist it allows communication to be open more and allows the therapist to communicate in a way that is genuine and accepting of the client and it allows the client to be able to trust the counselor and not have the fears that they are going to be ridiculed in therapy or that the therapist is going disapprove of them. …show more content…
Adler believed that everyone creates fictional goals for themselves throughout their childhood that are representative of the person’s life experiences and what role they believe they have in their life and society. While these goals remain in a person’s unconscious they play a significant role in the way a person thinks, acts, and feels. This is very important in Adlerian therapy because the therapist has to understand what these fictional goals are in order to try and correct them because some people develop these ideas about themselves that are distorted. Since these ideas are in a person’s unconscious psyche Adlerian therapy tries to make the person aware of the unique ways they have assembled their idea of the world and help the person correct them.