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Adlerian Brief Therapy 10 much like going back.” Such a statement suggests that having someone take care of the client may be one of the goals of the depression. A second strategy is actually an investigation: U stands for understanding the client’s underlying rules of interaction. Adlerians believe that all behavior is social in nature: It is enacted in social systems and gains meaning in interaction. The client’s rules of interaction guide the client’s movement or style of living through daily life; these rules also comprise the client’s perspective on self, others, the world, and life, itself. Since the rules of interaction start to form when people are very young, Adlerians use birth order and family constellations, developmental processes and life task assessments, and early recollections, to name a few, as avenues of investigation (Carlson & Slavik, 1997; Mosak & Maniacci, 1998; Sweeney, 1998). Whatever the assessment process, meaning is shared with the intent of a conscious consideration of the function of underlying rules, past and present, through a process Nicoll (1999) calls “active wondering.” “I’m not sure here, but I can’t help but wonder if perhaps sometimes your depressive episodes don’t also work for you a little in helping you avoid difficult situations and mobilizing others to take care of you” (Nicoll et al., 2000, p. 236). R stands for re-orientation. Re-orientation is the process of helping clients to consider a new perspective. It aims at enlarging the awareness of clients so that they can think about and intend solutions in a manner that is different than the thinking that generated “the problem” in the first place. Reframing, re-
Adlerian Brief Therapy 11 labeling, normalization, generating hope and options, and uses of humor, metaphors, and even storytelling all enhance the re-orientation process (Nicoll, 1999; Watts & Carlson, 1999). Whatever the intervention, Adlerians aim to change more than mere behavior; re-orientation seeks to shift rules of interaction, process, and motivation. Such shifts are often facilitated through specific changes in awareness, contact, and experience that take place within a counseling session but which are transformed into action outside of the session. Therapist: Do you know why people always seem to provoke you into getting angry? Client: Because I’m not liked. Therapist: I have a different idea. Could it be that people know you “go off” easily, and they want to see it happen. Maybe they sense this rule you have: that “no one gets to tell you what to do and get away with it!!!” Client: Yeah, I think that does happen . . . all the time, actually. P stands for prescribing new behaviors or behavioral rituals. Behavioral rituals involve regularly repeated actions that maintain human interactions or patterns and their underlying rules of interaction. In this sense, family, school, religion, and society all enact routines, ritual behaviors, and celebrations that serve the function of reinforcing or reaffirming their cultural worldview and
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