In our counseling course by Dr. Wassim Abou
Yassine, we were discussing Adler’s approaches in psychology who greatly
believed in person’s individual psychology and social interest and lifestyle
assessment therapy. But, how can this be applied for students in a classroom by
a teacher counselor? Lifestyle assessments therapy explores a student’s
family of origin, his birth order, early memories, and beliefs about gender,
achievement, significance, and belonging.
This
approach helps to identify what makes a student a unique individual. Adlerian
life style assessments are explorations which relate into different aspects of
student’s life. They are composed of a series of questions which aim to
identify the way this student understand the world around him. Adler believed
that most of the personality or lifestyle was developed by age five. By this
age most of students have established some understanding of the world and how
they fit in it. While they continue to grow older, they generally interpret
their experiences based on prior beliefs. This explains how many people and
even family members can go through a similar experience and interpret it
completely differently. From studying family origin, teachers can see patterns
in family relationships and even genes inclinations related to mental
conditions like depression, dependency...
Teachers can use the below
lifestyle assessment questionnaire for studying any of their student's
cases:
The most noticeable and important thing that Adler talked about is the importance of subjectivity instead of objectivity, which is really so important for teachers and parents to understand and follow in their interaction and dealing with their children and students.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Omar for sharing such valuable information, especially that the midterm is on Thursday :P
I agree with you but not in all the ideas, because there are more than one mentality of the students in side the class also not all the student have the same order of thinking also not all the students have the same circumstances in their homes so what can i do in these cases?
ReplyDeleteIt is obvious that Adler was focusing on the person as an entity and on the problem itself. Thus he divided his work through a therapeutic process into four phases. Firstly, as a counselor, you must build a good relationship with the client in order to gain his trust. secondly, you must understand his psychological dynamics through assessing his certain issue. Then, encouraging him to interpret and specify then the problem by himself. Finally, you must re-orient and re-educate the client.
ReplyDeletewhat i liked most about Adler his rational,and more logical approaches ,considering inferiority as a direct motive for creativity and superiority.
ReplyDeleteAs teachers we need to look at all the positive points of each approach. Adler highlighted several important points that affect one's life and which can be utilized to better understand what motivate someone's behaviors. He talked about belonging, which means that most of the times learners misbehave because they need to feel that they are part of a group. As teachers if we think about this point seriously we will be able to find lots of solutions to many problems. Also we can build up the spirit of social interest in our kids so that they feel engaged and involved and avoid misbehaving just for the seek of belonging.
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