Alfred Adler Institute of Northwestern Washngton

Distance Training in
Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy:
Individual Adult Psychotherapy: Part II
DT302B

Instructor: Henry T. Stein, Ph.D.

Objective: To gain a full understanding of the process of psychotherapy by following one simulated case from beginning to end. In a five-day master seminar, the major phases of treatment are demonstrated in role plays, followed by group questions and discussion.
Reading: Handouts from the five-day master seminar. Transcriptons of role plays are provided for a comprehensive study of treament strategies and techniques.
Audio: The Art of Classical Adlerian Psychotherapy, a five-day master seminar conducted by Henry Stein. (Thirty hours)
E-mail: Comments and questions.
Discussion: Five hours of telephone conferencing.
Time: Approximately five to ten weeks.
Cost: $1,080.00
Note: Prerequisite: Courses DT101, DT102A, DT102B, DT302A


Outline of Course Content

  • FORMULATING A PLAN FOR INDIVIDUAL GROWTH
    • Gaining a relevant client history and image of the childhood prototype.
    • Eliciting earliest memories, fantasies, and dreams.
    • Seeking the common denominators in symptoms, attitudes, thinking, feeling, and action.
    • Making diagnostic conclusions: inferiority feelings, compensatory fictional goal, degree of activity, levels of social interest and courage.
    • Comparing individual's life style to fully funtioning ideal--Adler/Müller/Maslow model of human potential.
  • THE PROCESS OF CREATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY
    • Translating life style diagnosis into a treatment plan.
    • Winning cooperation and endorsing responsibility.
    • Phases of a complete psychotherapy. Support phase: contact, empathy, and information. Encouragement phase: moving in a new direction. Insight phase: revealing the life style and goal. Change phase: providing a missing experience, experimenting with new attitudes. Challenge phase: discovering social interest, adopting a new philosophy and life goal.
  • SOCRATIC QUESTIONING FOR COGNITIVE CHANGE
    • The art of leading a client to useful conclusions.
    • Centripetal strategies: getting to the bottom of private meanings, personal values, and an implicit philosophy of life.
    • Centrifugal strategies: generating new thinking, feeling, and action possibilities; dialectical exploration of options; evaluating probabilities and logical consequences.
    • Contemplating a new meaning of life.
  • USING EIDETIC AND GUIDED IMAGERY FOR AFFECTIVE CHANGE
    • Eidetic imagery for enhancing insight into early family relationships: symbolically embedded meaning and feeling.
    • Guided imagery for eliciting deep feelings, changing parental imprints, preparing for emotional change, and positive anticipation of new success.
    • Narrative imagery for teaching, coaching, and correcting behavior patterns.
  • ROLE-PLAYING AND ACTION STRATEGIES FOR BEHAVIORAL CHANGE
    • Role-playing to illustrate unclear or evasive descriptions.
    • Rehearsing a new behavior al strategy with the therapist or group member.
    • Testing a client's readiness: experiencing the worst-case scenario and learning to handle it.
    • Discovering probable positive and negative social consequences.
    • Playing the client to experience private logic. 

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                    Individual Adult Psychotherapy: Part II - DT302B

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    		 Distance Training Course: DT302B - Individual Adult Treatment - Part II
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