{"title":"Navigating Adventure Therapy: Using Adlerian Theory as a Guide","authors":"David D. Christian, D. L. McCarty, Cian L. Brown","doi":"10.1353/jip.2021.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jip.2021.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article proposes the use of Adlerian theory to guide adventure therapy (AT), an active intervention that uses experiential techniques to foster client growth. Important Adlerian concepts identified in this paper include phenomenology, teleology, choice, superiority, social interest, and lifestyle with further discussion into Adlerian theory as a guiding theory of counseling. Also explored is the use of Adlerian theory to conceptualize AT participants and facilitate activities. Specific AT techniques like challenge by choice, full-value contract, adventure wave, risk, and adventure activities are identified. Finally, this article concludes by exploring how Adlerian theory can guide culturally responsive AT practice.","PeriodicalId":410014,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Individual Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133691413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy: Intersubjective and Relational Elements","authors":"G. Eife, Erik Mansager, K. Witte","doi":"10.1353/jip.2021.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jip.2021.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The authors share the context of the depth-psychotherapeutic approach of Alfred Adler. Then, responding to the growth of interpersonal approaches in psycho analytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy, the authors present vignettes of Adlerian psychotherapy to demonstrate its historical and companionable approach to intersubjectivity and relational elements in the larger world of psychotherapy. Publishing in an Adlerian journal rather than one of psychodynamic psychotherapy offers members of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology a taste of Adler's expanded potential in the therapeutic setting.","PeriodicalId":410014,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Individual Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128936473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marina Bluvshtein, Marq Wilson, T. Moore, Johannil Napoleón, Kia A. Watkins
{"title":"Kenneth B. Clark and His \"Implications of Adlerian Theory for an Understanding of Civil Rights Problems and Actions\": 54 Years Later","authors":"Marina Bluvshtein, Marq Wilson, T. Moore, Johannil Napoleón, Kia A. Watkins","doi":"10.1353/jip.2021.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jip.2021.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The article presents five contemporary responses to Dr. Kenneth Clark's 1967 keynote address at the 15th Annual Conference of the American Society of Adlerian Psychology in New York. The responses concern race, racism, Black psychology, and social justice in clinical practice, higher education, and general social living. The authors pose questions to clinicians, educators, researchers, public policy administrators and conclude with the call to actions.","PeriodicalId":410014,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Individual Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116418097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trauma-Informed Adlerian Play Therapy: A Case Study","authors":"Courtney Evans","doi":"10.1353/jip.2021.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jip.2021.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:According to Adlerian theory, early life influences, such as potentially traumatic events, can have an impact on an individual's lifestyle (his or her general orientation to life). For counselors working with children who have experienced traumatic events, it is important to have a modality to conceptualize and to provide efficacious interventions. This case study shows how one child's symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder following chronic sexual abuse were significantly decreased after trauma-informed Adlerian play therapy (AdPT) participation. In fact, the child's symptoms, post-counseling, no longer met diagnostic criteria for PTSD at all. Through the use of trauma-informed AdPT, the client's parent reported complete symptom alleviation, making a compelling case for the use of AdPT in work with this population.","PeriodicalId":410014,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Individual Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125003783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use of Early Recollections to Treat Body-Image Dissatisfaction in Gay and Bisexual Men","authors":"Michael P. Chaney","doi":"10.1353/jip.2021.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jip.2021.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Body-image dissatisfaction (BID) is increasingly a concern among men, with gay and bisexual men (GBM) at particular risk. Mental health professionals are in a position to counsel this population; however, many are not adequately trained to treat BID in GBM. Interventions to treat BID in GBM are often excluded from mental health scholarship. To address this gap, this article describes how to implement early recollections (ERs) to unmask themes and meaning of BID among GBM. Theoretical foundations of ERs are reviewed, and a case vignette is examined to illustrate how to implement and analyze ERs.","PeriodicalId":410014,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Individual Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121962989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mantak Yuen, J. Yau, J. A. Datu, Shui-wai Wong, Ryder T. H. Chan, P. Lau, N. Gysbers
{"title":"Examining the Influence of Meaning in Life and Social Connectedness on Adolescents' Career Self-Efficacy","authors":"Mantak Yuen, J. Yau, J. A. Datu, Shui-wai Wong, Ryder T. H. Chan, P. Lau, N. Gysbers","doi":"10.1353/jip.2021.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jip.2021.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Alfred Adler considered social interest as contributing to an individual's sense of belonging and sense of significance. The concepts of meaning in life, social connectedness, and career self-efficacy are closely related to the sense of contribution, sense of belonging, and tasks of life. The study reported here was conducted with 2,638 Chinese adolescents (mean age = 14.92, standard deviation = 1.32) to investigate associations among variables of meaning in life, social connectedness, and career self-efficacy. Results suggest that presence of meaning, as compared to searching for meaning, appears to have a stronger degree of association with self-efficacy in career exploration, work habits, and talent development. Furthermore, both dimensions of meaning in life had indirect effects on self-efficacy in career exploration, work habits, and talent development through the mediating variable of connectedness to parents, peers, school, and teachers. Limitations of the study are discussed, and implications for future research and for school-based counseling programs are identified.","PeriodicalId":410014,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Individual Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133635015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implications of Adlerian Theory for an Understanding of Civil Rights Problems and Action","authors":"K. Clark","doi":"10.1353/jip.2021.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jip.2021.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Without question, the most significant and persistent influence on my own thoughts and activities as a social psychologist has been the social dynamic theories of Alfred Adler. I was introduced to the writings of Adler by Professor Francis Cecil Sumner (1895-1954) who initiated me into the field of psychology when I was an undergraduate at Howard University during the early 1930's. The late Professor Sumner was one of the wisest, most scholarly students of psychology I have ever known. He shared with Alfred Adler the fact of being woefully underestimated and unsung, while more flamboyant, fashionable or deliberately obscure or detached social and psychological theorists were being lionized by intellectual faddists and cults. He also shared with him the view that a relevant psychology must be concerned with the destiny and fulfillment of man and society, and the profound hope that man had the capacity to use his rational powers to develop a just and viable society.2 While I was still an undergraduate, Sumner's interpretation of psychodynamic theories-and particularly the clarity with which he presented and interpreted Adlerian theory-struck a response within me which caused me to decide to become a psychologist instead of a physician. In looking back on the basis of this decision of a college junior, the following factors seem salient:","PeriodicalId":410014,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Individual Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121883352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Interest and Collectivism: A Study of the New Generation of Mainland China","authors":"Danqing Huo, Leigh Johnson-Migalski","doi":"10.1353/jip.2021.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jip.2021.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Social interest, one of the key concepts within Adlerian psychology, has been extensively studied within western individualistic cultures, as well as some other collectivist cultures, but not within the Chinese collectivist culture. This study tested the relationships between Chinese young adults' scores on social interest, individualism, and collectivism. There were 266 participants between ages 18 and 26 who were undergraduate or graduate students in China. The Sulliman Scale of Social Interest and Concise Scale of Individualism–Collectivism were used. The results indicated that collectivism does not predict social interest within the young Chinese generation. However, higher individualistic levels in this sample suggested more interpersonal relationship issues. In addition, both high individualistic and collectivistic levels do not positively suggest high social interest; however, these results are discussed with the definition of social interest and the sociocultural context of the sample.","PeriodicalId":410014,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Individual Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131914625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Story of the Crucial Cs: Tradition, Origin, and Applications","authors":"Amy Lew","doi":"10.1353/jip.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jip.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":410014,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Individual Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130120043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Applicability of the Crucial Cs Across Relational Models in Developmental Trauma","authors":"Joyce A. DeVoss, Margaret C. Wadsley","doi":"10.1353/jip.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jip.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Lack of explanation of the nature of developmental trauma in the description of post-traumatic stress and stress-related trauma in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.) can be overcome by the shared understanding of complex trauma as a basis for treatment. Individual Psychology offers a holistic biopsychosocial perspective of trauma and complex trauma in a social context. The Crucial Cs, from Individual Psychology, in association with other current relational theories and treatment models, support therapeutic engagement, initial assessment, and periodic reviews. The Cs, known as \"four vital protections\" (Lew & Bettner, 2010), assist the psychotherapist in meeting clients' relational needs. Clients and psychotherapists use them to understand losses, deficiencies, impasses, and vulnerabilities. Life priorities, personality styles, and prosocial coping strategies emerge within post-traumatic growth.","PeriodicalId":410014,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Individual Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130322505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}