![]() Our job will be to raise our clients’ awareness of the good feeling they have when they positively impact another – however slightly. For this we need a clear view of clients as they present themselves, as they compare to others in similar situations, and as to what they are avoiding. Adlerian depth therapists work to highlight whatever progress has actually been made – especially that which clients do not consciously register. We sense their impatience and hear their demands for immediate success. So often clients report with frustration what is going on in their lives. Later it includes the client’s acceptance of slowing down their patterns of talk and behavior and considering the therapists comments. Cooperation might first take the form of arriving on time and sharing the talking-time of the therapeutic hour. Our aim is to nurture an increasingly cooperative interaction with our clients which they will eventually be able to activate with others. ![]() 341) said his view of the therapeutic atmosphere was one that decreased the client’s feeling of inferiority while simultaneously stimulated their remnant of social interest into adequate development. ![]() He identified encouragement as the heart of therapy. If our clients can begin to feel our care as a sense of equality, they can extend it to the new tasks in front of them.Īdler came down on the side of art and creativity he guided therapists to look at their clients’ level of social interest and to invent ways of increasing this from the first meeting forward. It originates in authentically caring interactions between the therapist and client. So, how does therapeutic encouragement happen? Is it a technique or an art? Is encouragement found in a rich list of memorized sayings that are at the ready and strategically applied? Does a permanent smile on a counselor’s face or readiness to offer a pat on the back encourage personal and interpersonal growth? Adler suggests the origin of encouragement is more elusive. Seeing their current development compared to where they have been in the recent past offers encouragement to sustain their growth in the new direction. Their personal effort needs to be inspired to grow and then to be compared with their old activities. While there are general guidelines about the process, the specific application must be re-invented for each of our clients. This goes for therapeutic encouragement as well. The stuff of Classical Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy (CADP) is never a fixed formula applied to clients. Published March 16, 20120, The NASAP Newlsetter (TNN), Erik Mansager, PhD
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