adelerian therapy

I have a 40- year- old woman with depression. After reviewing the symptomology and case history, I believe Adlerian therapy would be most beneficial because Adlerian therapy stresses on the unison of persona, the need to view people from their biased point of view, and the significance of life goals that provide a path to behavior. This approach will help the client become motivated by social interest and allow her to find goals that give her life meaning. Therapy is a matter of providing encouragement and assisting clients in changing their cognitive perspective.
Adlerian therapy focuses on challenging clients’ misguided thinking and out of order assumptions, which aids them to learn to live more wholly. As a therapist using the Adlerian approach I would look beyond the client’s symptoms to the cause interfering, which could include the following: transitioning to mid-life, dissatisfaction with her marriage, feeling overweight, etc. The goal of treatment would be to find out the underlining cause of her depression and try to get it under control, and/or eliminate or decrease it, to increase her self-esteem. By using this approach the therapist can get to the nucleus of the client’s issues quicker than could a psychoanalytic approach. Working cooperatively with the client, I as the therapist would provide encouragement so that the client can build up socially useful goals. A number of precise goals that would be used would include; encouraging social interest, helping clients triumph over feelings of deterrent, altering faulty motivation, changing misguided postulations, and serving client to feel a sense of shared correspondence. I would also most definitely use a daily life assessment to collect as much family history as possible because the Adlerian approach believes that in order to comprehend people; one must first comprehend the schemes of which they are a part of.