Introduction
Adlerian therapy emphasizes the ability of an individual to bring up a positive impact on their own life. In the Adlerian approach, there are several stages of the counseling process, consisting of the engagement stage, assessment, insight stage, and reorientation stage. For this Adlerian approach of counseling, individuals work towards overcoming feelings of inferiority and acting according to social interests. Each of the four stages of the counseling process entails a different aspect of counseling clients.
Discussion
The engagement stage entails establishing a therapeutic relationship that involves collaboration to address the client’s problem. In this stage, the counselor performs the role of offering encouragement and support. After the counselor engages with the client, there is a need to assess the client’s problem, which is the assessment stage. This stage occurs when the counselor focuses on learning more about the client’s background. The counselor discovers more about the client’s family diminuendos and early experiences (Eife et al., 2021). In this assessment stage, the therapist discovers a style of thinking that is not helpful and adaptive to them. The insight stage comprises the therapist’s interpretation of the client’s situation, suggesting theories for the client’s experience. It leaves the client to decide whether the theories if they are useful or not. The orientation stage follows, where the counselor helps the client formulate helpful and new strategies they will use in their daily lives.
Conclusion
In the counseling process in the Adlerian approach, counselors play the role of providing clients with the encouragement and support they need to adapt effectively to the feeling of inferiority. Also, the counselor in the Adlerian approach helps clients to develop healthy ways that they will use to overcome feelings of inferiority. Moreover, counselors help clients understand their problems and help them make healthy changes that will change the client’s past experiences.
Reference
Eife, G., Mansager, E., & Witte, K. H. (2021). Adlerian depth psychotherapy: Intersubjective and relational elements. Journal of Individual Psychology, 77(3), 286-304.