Adler published a structured interview to be used early in the counseling relationship. What are ten of the questions that he used? Explain how each question fits into Adlerian theory
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• What are your complaints?
• What was your situation when you first noticed your symptoms? What is your situation now?
• What is your occupation?
• Describe your parents as to their character, and their health. If not alive, what illness caused their death? What was their relation to yourself?
• How many brothers and sisters have you? What is your position in the birth order? What is their attitude toward you? How do they get along in life? Do they also have any illness?
• Who was your father's or your mother's favorite? What kind of up-bringing did you have?
• Inquire for signs of pampering in childhood (timidity, shyness, difficulties in forming friendships, disorderliness).
• What illnesses did you have in childhood and what was your attitude to them?
• What are your earliest childhood recollections?
• What do you fear, or what did you fear the most?
• What is your attitude toward the opposite sex? What was it in childhood and later years?
• What occupation would have interested you the most, and if you did not adopt it, why not?
• Is the patient ambitious, sensitive, inclined to outbursts of temper, pedantic, domineering, shy, or impatient?
• What sort of persons are around you at present? Are they impatient, bad-tempered, or affectionate?
• How do you sleep?
• What dreams do you have? (Of falling, flying, recurrent dreams, prophetic, about examinations, missing a train.)
• What illnesses are there in your family background?
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