Birth Order
Current Trends
Key Concepts
Areas of Applications
Adler
100
Generally receives a good deal of attention. This child is dependable, hard working, and strives to keep ahead.
What is the Oldest Child.
100
Alfred Adler helped develop this School of Psychology
What is Individual Psychology
100
Specific incidents that clients recall, along with feelings and thoughts that accompanied these childhood incidents. These recollections are quite useful in getting a better understanding of the client.
What is Early Recollections
100
This application emphasizes the family constellation, holism, and the freedom of the therapist to improvise.
What is Family Counseling.
100
Adler's birth city.
What is Vienna
200
This child develops helplessness into an art form. Tends to go their own way and may outshine the others.
What is the Youngest Child
200
Adler was greatly influenced by this philosopher
What is Nietzsche.
200
Includes parents, siblings, and others living in the home, life tasks, and early recollections.
What is Family Constellation.
200
The rationale behind this approach is based on the premise that our problems are mainly of a social nature.
What is Group Counseling
200
This caused Adler's death while he was on a walk before a scheduled lecture in Aberdeen.
What is Heart Failure
300
If this child's position is challenged they will feel it is unfair.
What is the Only Child
300
This concept is what distinguished Adler from Freud.
What is Humanism.
300
The individual way in which people perceive their world. This includes the individual's perceptions, thoughts, feelings, values, beliefs, convictions, and conclusions.
What is Subjective Reality
300
Rather than looking for who is at fault int he relationship, the therapist considers the lifestyles of the partners and the interaction of the two lifestyles.
What is Couples Counseling.
300
Adler's medical specialization.
What is psychiatry
400
Develops a knack for finding out weak spots.
What is the Second Child.
400
Adler believed that humans were goal oriented. He coined this term as....
What is Teleological.
400
This concept implies that we cannot be understood in parts; but rather, all aspects of ourselves must be understood in relationship. The focus is on understanding whole persons within their socially embedded contexts of family, culture, school, and work.
What is Holistic Concept.
400
By providing teachers with ways to prevent and correct basic mistakes of children, he sought to promote social interest and mental health.
What is Application to Education
400
The year Adler began lecturing in the United States.
What is 1920's
500
The switchboard and peacemaker of the family.
What is the Middle Child
500
ABT
What is Adlerian Brief Therapy.
500
This term refers to an imagined life goal that guides a person's behavior. It was later replaced by Adler with "guiding self-ideal" to account for our striving toward superiority or perfection.
What is Fictional Finalism.
500
This application seeks to improve the relationship between parent and child by promoting greater understanding and acceptance.
What is Parent Education.
500
Adler's first major psychology book.
What is Understanding Human Nature.
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