Adlerian Therapy for Addiction and Mental Health Recovery
Sabino Recovery is an upscale mental health and addiction treatment center that provides a trauma-centered approach to treatment with integrative and holistic care. By combining naturopathic and allopathic medicine with evidence-based modalities like Adlerian therapy, you’ll be on the path to recovery.
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Adlerian therapy is a short-term, goal-oriented, and positive psychodynamic therapy based on the theories of Alfred Adler. Adler focused much of his research on feelings of inferiority versus superiority, discouragement, and a sense of belonging in the context of one’s community and society at large.
According to Adler, feelings of inferiority can result in neurotic behavior but, in the right setting, can also be used as motivation to strive for greater success. During Adlerian Therapy, human behavior is viewed as having a purpose and a goal, with the belief that individuals desire to be socially connected with others.
Adlerian therapy can be applied successfully to help treat trauma and trauma-induced symptoms, such as substance use or mental health disorders.
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The Adlerian Theory
The Adlerian theory and individual psychology center on understanding the unique perspective of each person and addressing issues such as the inferiority complex, which drives individuals to strive for superiority. This theory delves into an individual’s belief systems and emphasizes the concept of “lifestyle,” a deeply ingrained pattern of beliefs, values, and goals that guide their choices and actions. It acknowledges the innate human nature to seek competence and significance in the social world, motivating individuals to actively shape their lives.
Adlerian therapists work with patients to explore and reframe their lifestyles, fostering healthier and more constructive ways of living. In essence, Adlerian theory offers a holistic perspective on human behavior rooted in early experiences, birth order, belief systems, and the inherent drive for personal growth and self-actualization within each individual.
How Adlerian Therapy Works
Individuals are also encouraged to acquire a more positive and productive life by developing new insights, skills, and behaviors.
These goals are achieved through the four stages of Adlerian therapy:
In the first stage of Adlerian therapy, individuals and their therapist begin to establish the therapeutic relationship. This relationship helps create a collaboration towards addressing the individual’s problems.
They establish goals and boundaries before diving into the real work: building a foundation of trust. The therapist should offer support and encouragement during this process.
During the assessment stage, the therapist encourages the individual to talk about their experiences, emotions, behaviors, family, upbringing, and drives. This process helps the therapist learn more about the individual’s background.
This information helps establish how the individual’s current behaviors came to be. Was there a significant life event that made them feel ashamed or guilty? Did this event push them into the shadows or cause them to become quiet to avoid feeling stupid?
In this part of therapy, the therapist attempts to understand how the individual may have developed certain styles of thinking that are no longer helpful for them.
In the third stage, the therapist offers an interpretation of the client’s situation. The therapist suggests theories about how past experiences may have contributed to issues the individual is currently experiencing. The therapist then leaves it up to the individual to decide whether these theories are accurate and useful.
During the last stage of Adlerian Therapy, therapists and individuals develop a new interpretation of the individual’s past and strategies that they can use to change their lives in positive ways.
This new, positive perspective can give individuals the confidence they need to work toward their goals. Having shed the weight of shame, guilt, or lack of self-worth, it is easier for the individual to move toward growth and fulfillment.
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Benefits of Adlerian Therapy for Substance Use Disorders
- Empowerment: This approach empowers individuals by emphasizing their active role in shaping their lives and taking responsibility for their choices.
- Strengths-Based Approach: It focuses on an individual’s strengths and resources rather than dwelling on weaknesses, fostering self-confidence and resilience.
- Holistic Perspective: This modality considers an individual’s unique life experiences, social context, and subjective perceptions, providing a comprehensive understanding of their concerns.
- Practical Solutions: Adlerian therapy encourages collaborative problem-solving, helping individuals set achievable goals and develop practical solutions to address their issues.
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Addressing Feelings of Inferiority
Among psychologically healthy individuals, these feelings of inferiority encourage the pursuit of goals, motivating them to strive towards self-improvement. By developing positive ways of coping with feelings of inferiority, individuals can achieve great things and make a positive contribution to society as a whole.
However, some individuals have difficulty coping with feelings of inferiority, which leads them to feel discouraged. Other individuals may cope with feelings of inferiority in harmful ways, like behaving selfishly to feel superior to others or engaging in substance abuse to numb their feelings.
In Adlerian therapy, therapists work to provide individuals with the support and encouragement they need to cope more effectively with feelings of inferiority and develop healthy ways of overcoming these feelings.
Improving Social Connections
For example, a person high in social interest might go out of their way to help others, while a person with a lower social interest may bully others or act in antisocial ways. The most important thing to note is that levels of social interest can change over time. While participating in Adlerian therapy, individuals can increase their levels of social interest.
Focusing on Accepting the Individual
For example, if we were to focus merely on negative behaviors, individuals might feel that their other qualities don’t have value. However, when we highlight good qualities and show the person they are valued, negative behaviors and beliefs can be slowly replaced.
Adlerian therapy helps individuals in their process of healing learn to accept themselves as an individual. By delving into past and present beliefs, an understanding of behavior can be made. Through this understanding, individuals can move towards learning to accept themselves and move forward with the world and others with confidence. This therapy can be used to treat addiction, trauma, or any mental health disorder.
Addiction Treatment and Adlerian Therapy at Sabino Recovery
At Sabino Recovery, we offer a wide range of evidence-based therapeutic methods designed to improve your recovery from trauma and trauma-induced symptoms. We comprehensively treat mental health disorders and addictions with an engaged and highly trained staff, resulting in an effective therapeutic alliance. We optimize healing by empowering our residents to make positive changes and by providing holistic, integrated, and strength-based treatments.
If you or a loved one is struggling with trauma, addiction, or a mental health disorder, call Sabino Recovery today. Healing begins with Sabino Recovery.
