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NECAP The New England Community of Adlerian
Psychology email: bobhk@aol.com - Phone: 860-345-3204 - Mail: Bob Herrmann-Keeling, 3 Mario Drive, Higganum CT 06441` |
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NECAP The New England Community of Adlerian
Psychology email: bobhk@aol.com - Phone: 860-345-3204 - Mail: Bob Herrmann-Keeling, 3 Mario Drive, Higganum CT 06441` |
| Links, Resources, and Other Matters Herewith some internet addresses and other resources for those seeking connections or more information. |
| Adlerian web sites The North American Society of Adlerian
Psychology (NASAP ) NASAP president
Classical Adlerian
Psychology The Adler Graduate School has a distinguished history in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area. Through the encouragement and support of internationally known psychiatrist Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, the institution was initially founded in 1967 as the Minnesota Adlerian Society. It began in the Twin Cities as a small movement to present Adlerian concepts to the regional community. Among its initial founders were Bob Bartholow, Susan Pye Brokow, Bill and Miriam ("Mim") Pew, and Bob Willhite. They worked directly under Dreikurs' tutelage. By 1969, the new Society experienced broad public exposure, broad participation, and enthusiastic volunteerism. Programs were offered to individuals, couples, and families at numerous locations around Minneapolis and St. Paul . Concurrently, an Adlerian teaching institute was created as part of the Society. This was started by a group of professionals dedicated to teaching the practice of Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology. In May 1969, the Institute was separately chartered as the Alfred Adler Institute of Minnesota (AAIM). In 1982, AAIM began a cooperative program with its sister institution, The Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago . AAIM was first independently accredited in 1991 as a full fledged graduate school offering various paths of study toward the Master of Arts degree in Adlerian Counseling and Psychotherapy. In July 1998, the Institute formally changed its name to the Alfred Adler Graduate School (AAGS) and to the Adler Graduate School (AGS) in 2004. Today, in addition to the Master of Arts in Adlerian Counseling and Psychotherapy, the Adler Graduate School offers various certificate and other special study programs. It is a well-respected graduate institution educating and training mental health practitioners. At its core remains the Adlerian philosophy of encouragement, open-mindedness, and mutual support to advance the public interest. The
school offers Adlerian-based graduate courses with six areas of emphasis: Marriage and
family therapy, Clinical Counseling, School Counseling, Management Consulting and
Organizational Leadership, Non-clinical Adlerian Studies, and Art Therapy. |
Other web sites of interest
http://www.adlerian.com My father Dr Neil Beattie met Alfred Adler in the early 1930's. He found in
his philosophy and teaching, ideas which he felt had a profound and practical relevance to
everyday life. After spending his life talking about and spreading these ideas and this
philosophy, he wanted to provide a facility which could offer continuing and on-going
training using the Adlerian Model. Over the past twenty years as we have sought to develop
the work that was so much a part of my late father's life, we have begun to publish new
Adlerian material. We have concentrated on making the material accessible both in price
and in content. http://www.adleriansociety.co.uk The first contact that Alfred Adler had with the United Kingdom was in
Oxford, where in 1923 he attended the seventh International Congress of Psychology and
gave a lecture in German on Individual psychology. He returned to Oxford University in
1926 before his first visit to the USA, and again in 1936. Soon after his first visit, a
group was formed in London called 'the Gower Street Club of Individual Psychology', which
later became known as 'the Adler Society'. Unfortunately this society became tainted with
political bias and between 1928 and 1930 its medical members broke away and formed the
Medical Society for Individual Psychology. Adler made a special visit to London in 1931
and removed his name from the former 'Adler Society'. Thanks to the Medical Society and
its association with the International Society (now the Association) for Individual
Psychology, the Adlerian movement in Great Britain continued to develop. Later on a new
group started in London with Adler as its President. [1-20-2010] |
Executive
Director: Dr. Becky LaFountain
Al Milliren, Ed.D., N.C.C., B.C.P.C., is Associate Professor of Psychology
and Counseling and Team Leader for the School Counseling program at Governors State
University in University Park, IL. He also serves as adjunct faculty for the Adler
School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, IL. He is a Nationally Certified
Counselor, is Board Certified in Professional Counseling, and holds the Diplomate in the
North American Society of Adlerian Psychology. Al has been a junior high school counselor
and teacher, an elementary school counselor, and a Professor of Counseling at Illinois
State University and at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is a
national and international workshop presenter and has authored or co-authored several
books and numerous articles on Adlerian Psychology and related topics. (A good friend to,
and member of, NECAP, Al has also written or co-written prefaces to books by Bob
Herrmann-Keeling, web master of this site.)
Dr. Henry
Stein is a major leader in traditional Adlerian counseling and theory.
"Classical Adlerian psychology is a values-based, fully-integrated, theory of
personality, model of psychopathology, philosophy of living, strategy for preventative
education, and technique of psychotherapy."