Alfred Adler Institutes of San Francisco and Northwestern Washington

Distance Training in
Classical Adlerian Brief Therapy:
Individual Adult Brief Therapy
DTB302

Instructor: Henry T. Stein, Ph.D.

Objective: To develop a comprehensive blueprint for the tasks and stages of brief therpy. To learn and practice techniques for cognitive, affective, and behavioral change, including the Socratic method, guided and eidetic imagery, and role-playing.
Reading: Selected books and articles on treatment by Alfred Adler, Anthony Bruck, & Alexander Mueller.
Audio: A series of recorded lectures by Henry Stein. (Eighteen 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 DTB101, DTB102


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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                        Individual Adult Psychotherapy: Part I - DTB302
    
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