significant pressure exerted upon the individual by other group members. The process is intended to encourage the individual to use thinking and exhibit behavior that is socially appropriate. In line with Adlerian group therapy are the following twelve steps of Adlerian therapy, steps which no doubt helped serve the basis of the Twelve Step program of Alcoholic’s Anonymous and other similar developmental step programs:
Empathy and Relationship Stage: Establishing an empathic, cooperative, working relationship. Offering hope, reassurance, and encouragement.
Information Stage: Unstructured gathering of relevant information. Details of presenting problem and overview of general functioning. Exploration of early childhood situation, memories, and dreams.
Clarification Stage: Clarifying vague thinking with Socratic questioning. Evaluating consequences of ideas and behavior. Correcting mistaken ideas about self and others.
Encouragement Stage: Encouraging thinking and behavior in a new direction. Beginning to move in a new direction, away from life style. Clarifying feelings about effort and results.
Interpretation and Recognition Stage: Interpreting inferiority feelings, style of life, and fictional final goal of superiority. Identifying what has been avoided in development. Integrating birth order, earliest recollections, and dreams.
Knowing Stage: Reinforcing client’s self-awareness of life style and feelings about new successes. Client knows what needs to be done but may feel blocked.
Emotional Breakthrough Stage: When needed, promoting emotional breakthroughs with missing experiences that correct past or present negative influences. Use of role-playing, guided imagery, and group dynamics.
Doing Differently Stage: Converting insight into a different attitude. Experimenting with concrete actions based on abstract ideas. Comparing new and old behavior.
Reinforcement Stage: Encouraging...