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A 4 page research paper that offers a brief overview of the approach to therapy developed by Alfred Adler, as well as the client-centered approach developed by Carl Rogers. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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practitioners. The following brief examination of these approaches presents how each these psychologists viewed clients and their problems, prior to discussing how their approaches compare. A contemporary of both
Freud and Jung, Alfred Adler is considered to be a major contributor to the development of the psychodynamic approach to therapy (Corey, 2009). After working collaboratively with Freud for roughly
a decade, Adler parted company, with Freud maintaining that Adler was a "heretic who had deserted him" (Corey, 2009, p. 97). Freud maintained that a therapist could not support Adlerian
concepts and be considered a psychoanalyst in good standing. Nevertheless, many therapists chose to do so and adopted an Adlerian approach to therapy, which stresses the "unity of personality," as
Adler contended that "people can only be understood as integrated, complete beings" (Corey, 2009, p. 98). The basic foundation of Adlerian therapy follows these ideas, which are that
"behavior is goal directed and purposive" and that "effective change occurs when the individual believes that he or she is capable of change and can identify this ability as a
strength" (Holcomb-McCoy and Bryan, 2010, p. 259). As this suggests, Adler viewed clients very differently than did Freud, as he saw human behavior as highly influenced by social relations, rather
than simply being the product of sexual urges and basic instinct (Corey, 2009). Adler rejected the determinism of Freud, believing that while genetics and heredity are significant, what is more
important is what people to choose to do with the abilities and limitations that these conditions impose (Corey, 2009). From the Adlerian perspective, rather than simply being a
product of heredity and environment, individuals have the capacity "to interpret, influence, and create events" (Corey, 2009, p. 99). Adlerian therapists consider the way in which clients view reality, that
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