Alfred Adler Institute of Northwestern Washngton

Distance Training in
Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy

Course DT302A:
Individual Adult Psychotherapy - Part I

Objective: To develop a comprehensive blueprint for the tasks and stages of psychotherapy. To learn and practice techniques for cognitive, affective, and behavioral change, including the Socratic method, guided and eidetic imagery, and role-playing.
Reading: Selected unpublished manuscripts on treatment, by Alfred Adler, Alexander Mueller, and Karl Nowotny. Study outline for recorded program.
Audio: Classical Adlerian Psychotherapy: A Socratic Approach, a series of recorded lectures by Henry Stein. (Eighteen hours)
E-mail: Comments and questions.
Discussion: Five hours of telephone conferencing.
Time: Five weeks.
Cost: $1,080.00
Note: Prerequisite: Courses DT101, DT102A, DT102B

Outline of Course Content

  • TOOLS FOR THE ART OF THERAPY
    • Defining the Working Relationship - Eliciting Cooperation - Maintaining Feeling of Equality
    • Giving Genuine Empathy and Precise Encouragement - Building Self-Esteem,
    • Reducing and Using Inferiority Feelings - Re-directing Superiority Striving
    • Correcting Private Logic - Dissolving Apperception Scheme - Changing the Fictional Goal
    • Providing Positive Modeling - Offering Challenges - Promoting Optimal Functioning
  • TWELVE STAGES OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
    • Map of the Complete Therapeutic Process - Uniqueness of Each Client's Journey
    • Empathy and Relationship Stage - Information Stage - Clarification Stage
    • Encouragement Stage - Interpretation-Recognition Stage - Knowing Stage
    • Missing Experience Stage - Doing Different Stage - Reinforcement Stage
    • Social Interest Stage - Goal-Redirection Stage - Support and Launching Stage
  • THE SOCRATIC METHOD
    • Origin of the Socratic Method - Use in Philosophy, Education, and Law - Socrates and Adler
    • Socratic Psychotherapy - Inductive, Deductive, and Analogical Reasoning
    • Questions at Each Stage of Therapy - Probing for Feelings, and Motives
    • Eliciting Meaning, Details, and Links With Past - Uncovering Ideals, Reasons, and Results
    • Exploring Opposites and Alternatives - Impact of Surprise and Dramatization
  • PROVIDING THE MISSING EXPERIENCE
    • Missing Emotional Experiences at Critical Ages - Evaluating Affective Deficits
    • Individual and Group Formats for Process - Building Up for a Breakthrough - Client's Readiness
    • Targeting Critical Ages, Family Members, and Situations - Designing a Scenario
    • Role-Playing, Guided Imagery, and Narration - Developmental Issues and Strategies
    • De-Briefing Techniques - Acceptance and Forgiveness - Digesting and Retaining New Experience
  • DEMONSTRATIONS OF TECHNIQUES
    • Transcribed and Annotated Demonstrations of Socratic Questioning - Line-by-Line Analysis
    • Transcribed Demonstration of a Missing Experience Strategy for Re-Mothering

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    Distance Training Course: DT302A - Individual Adult Treatment - Part I
    Tuition: $1,080.00

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