Individual Therapy Style: Adlerian Counseling

Individual Therapy Style
Adlerian counseling is a collaborative arrangement between the student and the counselor.
The healing process includes teaching, enlightening and encouraging the student, in order to help the student resolve some basic mistakes in their individual reasoning. A counselor using Adlerian therapy will assists students in understanding their thoughts, drives, and emotions that influence their way of life or thinking. When students are occupied in challenging situations, they sometimes have difficulty seeing beyond the problem and need help stepping away from or out of the problem so that another viewpoint can materialize. Students are also encouraged to acquire a more positive and productive way of life by developing

new insights, skills, and behaviors. These goals are achieved through a trusting relationship that is built between the therapist and the student, they agree to work together effectively to address the problem. The school counselor will assess the student and requests the student to tell about his or her personal history, family history, early memories, beliefs, feelings, and motives. This helps to disclose the student’s overall lifestyle configuration, and will help gauge goals, making sure the student has the means to reach them. The student is helped to develop new ways of thinking about his or her situation. The counselor will assign homework, set up contracts between them and the student, and make suggestions on how the student can reach their goals. The counselor will encourage the student to get involved in activities that are beneficial to the student and that support their new outlook (Santrock 2012).
Group Therapy Style
Adlerian therapy can be useful in group therapy because people ’s conflicts are identifiable as social, not only because the group is suitable to identify other’s lack of adjustment but because the therapy challenges these behaviors offering helpful influences.

Similarly, inferiority feelings may be challenged to offset the negative concepts and values that form the roots of social and emotional issues. Group therapy can facilitate the social context in which the participants may develop the sense of belonging and community. Some of the beneficial dynamics of the group are the identification between group members’ behavior, participants can benefit from others group members’ feedback, ability to help other and receive support from others members. The group enables the possibility of trying new behaviors and encourages the other students to take action over their lives. There are four stages in group therapy that correspond to four goals in counseling: first establishing and maintaining interconnected relationships with another student of the group; the therapy is based on the idea of equality between members, mutual respect, and identical involvement. The introduction of self-rule bases from the counselor, who is the mediator, is important. Both, students and counselor work together in the process to explore and look for positive change during the sessions (Corey,

2013).