Adlerian Therapy

Question 1

“Fictional finalism” is an adlerian term meaning:

Answer 1

an imagined central goal that guides our behavior

Question 2

The purpose of examining a client’s family constellation is:

Answer 2

to get a picture of the individual’s early social world

Question 3

All of the following are stages in Adlerian counseling except:

Answer 3

analysis of resistance

Question 4

According to Adlerians, inferiority feelings:

Answer 4

create motivation to achieve mastery

Question 5

The client’s core experience in Adlerian therapy consists of:

Answer 5

discovering their basic mistakes & then learning how to correct them

Question 6

Which of the following did Adler NOT stress?

Answer 6

focus on early childhood experiences as determinants of later personality functioning

Question 7

Adlerian therapy has a phenomenological orientation. Thus, the therapist attempts to view the world:

Answer 7

from the client’s frame of reference

Question 8

Which of the following is not true about the Adlerian concept of “private logic”?

Answer 8

it is a result of the feelings & emotions we experience in our daily lives

Question 9

Alfred Adler

Answer 9

First psychologist in modern era to use systematic approach; noticed birth order

Question 10

Phenomenological approach

Answer 10

counselor pays attention to the individual way that people perceive their world, or the client’s subjective reality

Question 11

Inferiority feelings

Answer 11

are a normal part of life and can be the wellspring of creativity because it drives people to strive for mastery (superiority) and success (completion) (Vulnerability: Relying on our human abilities and recognizing that they are insufficient.)

Question 12

People must successfully master 5 tasks:

Answer 12

(1) Social task: build friendships (2) Love-marriage task: establish intimacy (3) Occupational task (work): contribute to society (2 more tasks that Dreikurs and Mosak added are: (4) Acceptance (getting along with self) and (5) Spiritual dimension *Dysfunction in any one of these tasks often indicates a psychological disorder

Question 13

Establishing the Therapeutic Relationship

Answer 13

Relationship is key: based on caring, involvement, and friendship 1. Created by listening, responding, demonstrate respect, and exhibit faith, hope, and caring 2. Therapists help client gain self-worth while decreasing discouragement by providing support 3. Encouragement is very important

Question 14

Analysis and Assessment

Answer 14

Counselors use subjective interviews (counselor helps client tell his/her story as completely as possible and extracts patterns in the person’s life, develops hypothesis about what works for the client, and determines what accounts for the various concerns of client’s life)

Question 15

Adlerian therapist use

Answer 15

encouragement, challenges, confrontation, and tentative interpretations to examine client mistaken goals and faulty assumptions