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| From our first issue,
Winter (January) 2009 |
We Are Official! |
NASAP
BoD Approves NECAP as an Affiliate
In
my email box on December 10, 2008, 6:03 PM:
Dear
Bob,
Good
news! I sent out your info to the board electronically and they approved your affiliate.
Next week you will receive a formal letter to that extent.
Congratulations! — Becky
Part
of that “formal letter” is reproduced below. |
 |
Joining NECAP
Who
can join? Any
lay person or professional who is interested in the psychology of Dr. Alfred Adler can be
a NECAP member. One does not need to be a member of NASAP to belong to NECAP. NECAP
covers the 6 New England states. Here are some kinds of people to talk with about joining
us in NECAP:
Ø High
school, college psychology teachers |
Ø College
psych majors |
Ø Clergy |
Ø Your
neighbors? |
Ø
Counselors in your town or area |
Ø
Interested lay people |
Ø Medical
doctors, nurses |
Ø Your
friends? |
What does
it cost? At present there are no dues or fees to belong to NECAP. We do have
one continuing cost: $125 each year to maintain Affiliate Membership. Members may
contribute if they wish.
What do
I get out of it? (1)
Being part of a community of people who care about Adlerian psychology; (2) a regular way
to communicate with other Adlerians via email and this newsletter; (3) An eventual
face-to-face meeting at some central location. (4) “Cyber-Meetings” using
Instant Messaging and our own “chat room.”
How can
I contribute? If
you are not a member, please join us by sending
an email to bobhk@aol.com simply saying “Count me in.” If you are a member, please let others know about us and
invite them to join. And please,
submit an article, a letter, anything, for this newsletter as an attachment to bobhk@aol.com:—
Subject: “Newsletter”
Ø
Letters to this
Editor about NECAP, us in New England, etc. |
Ø Your
extensions of Adler’s ideas or methods |
Ø Comments
on NASAP activities: Tap-Talks, convention, etc. |
Ø
Comments on anything else Adlerian |
Ø
Articles on Adlerian concepts, psychotherapy, education |
Ø
Articles on other topics related to Adler’s ideas or methods |
Ø News
of Adlerian (or related) things you are doing |
Ø
Reviews of books or articles you’ve read |
Ø
Suggestions on how to improve this newsletter |
Ø
Anything else I haven’t thought of to include in this list! |
Ø Any ideas you
have about how to make our affiliate a strong voice for Adlerian psychology in New England
and our states. |
|
Letters to the Editor
For
this first issue I’m just including emails I’ve received about our getting
started as a NASAP affiliate. I open with Becky LaFountain’s email that we’ve
been approved!
Dear Bob,
Good news! I sent out your info to the board electronically and they approved
your affiliate . . . — Congratulations!
Becky
And
part of my email right back!
Dear
Becky:
Wow,
that was quick! The nine of us who are members of NECAP thank you! Now we have to figure
out how to be an affiliate of NASAP! A
quarterly newsletter to start . . . a face-to-face meeting sometime in the future (you
have NO idea how hard it is to get New Englanders to drive more than 20 miles from where
they live!) . . . a tri-fold brochure about our affiliate and NASAP and Adler that may get
some others to join — Bob
Y Y Y Y Y
This
from Al Milliren . . .
A great initiative, Bob. In honor of your endeavor, I would like to contribute my
time and service to joining your group at your first annual face-to-face to offer whatever
keynote, workshop, inspiration,
etc. free-of-charge. Let me know when and where so I can make plans to be there. — Al
Milliren
And
then this second one . . .
I
am happy to be of help and did not make my offer lightly. Be sure to let me know when I
can do something for the group. I voted yes on the affiliate thing and am sure it will go
through. Good for you to take the initiative. Let me know if I can be of help in other
ways. Be sure to send me your newsletter. Put me on your membership list. —
Al Milliren
And
an email from Wes Wingett:
Congratulations
on your perseverance! An item in the NASAP Newsletter might be helpful. Happy Holidays!
—
Best., Wes Wingett
Such
classy guys, always eager to help and encourage. — Bob |
Adlerian
Concepts |
Which
of these Adlerian concepts would you like to discuss in future issues? Have you written
about these concepts and share with us? Have you stories or examples of your application
of a concept to your own work as therapist, educator, coach? I’d be happy if you used
this as a check-list and send it along to me, so we can get some idea of what our members
want. |
|
|
Unity
of personality |
|
Purpose;
Goal-directedness; teleology |
|
Subjectivity;
phenomenology |
|
Inferiority
feelings, complex ã |
|
Superiority
strivings, complex |
|
Family
constellation |
|
Common
sense ã |
|
Socially
useful behavior |
|
Parental
roles and child imitation |
|
Private
logic ã |
|
Socially
useless behavior |
|
Family
atmosphere |
|
Sibling
position: numeric/ordinal ã |
|
Sibling
position: psycho-social |
|
Soft
determinism |
|
Social
embeddedness |
|
Life
Tasks |
|
Law
of Movement |
|
Fictional
finalism; fictional final goal |
|
Guiding
goal, destination |
|
Guiding
line |
|
Gender
guiding line |
|
Graph
of life |
|
Life
Style |
|
Social
Interest; fellow feeling ã |
|
Gemeinschaftsgefühl |
|
Acting
“as if” and “As if thinking” |
|
Antithetical
apperception |
|
Beliefs;
belief system |
|
Beliefs:
primary, secondary |
|
Belonging,
seeking significance ã |
|
Belonging
by Affection ã |
|
Belonging
by Attention ã |
|
Belonging
by Approval ã |
|
Belonging
by Control ã |
|
Belonging
by fairness ã |
|
Belonging
by help ã |
|
Encouragement
(success) ã |
|
Discouragement
(failure) |
|
Compensation
& over-compensation |
|
Complexes |
|
Consequences:
natural, logical/social |
|
Courage
in striving |
|
Early
recollections (ERs) |
|
Family |
|
Felt
Minus, Fictional Plus |
|
Guiding
fiction |
|
Iron
Law of communal life |
|
Life
style based on self-deception |
|
Masculine
protest |
|
Mistaken
thinking |
|
Neurotic
types of movement ã |
|
Distance
complexã |
|
The
hesitating attitude ãThe
detour ã |
|
The
narrowed path of approach |
|
Orientation;
lines of orientation |
|
Fixed
points (of safety, security) |
|
Perceptual or apperceptive schema |
|
Personal
frame of reference ã |
|
Personal
truth |
|
Personality
& Character |
|
The
Problem |
|
Psychology
of Use |
|
Self-guarding
behaviors |
|
Self-Ideal
(and “other ideals”) |
|
Self-talk |
|
The
Social Demand |
|
Yes-But personality |
|
Psychology
of use |
|
| And from our second
issue, "Spring, 2009" |
What
would you like??
I keep thinking of
things for our newsletter, but I want it to be more than just me. So what would be helpful for you in this newsletter? What do you want it to be? Below are some off-the-
top-of-my-head suggestions. Email your ideas to
me at bobhk@aol.com. Right now I’m thinking in terms of regular columns: Meet a member, Adlerian Concepts and Theory, Counseling Applications,
About Adler, Book/articles reviews,” etc. Please, let me
know what you want.
NECAP Poll of Member
Interests, Ideas, Skills, etc.
Name: |
|
Things
I’d like to see in the newsletter |
Comments,
including how you can contribute to the checked item . . . |
|
Application
of Adlerian ideas to counseling & psychotherapy |
Submitted
by someone else but for me to read
Submitted
by me |
|
Application
of Adlerian ideas to education, teaching, school counseling |
Submitted
by someone else but for me to read
Submitted
by me |
|
Application
of Adlerian ideas coaching |
Submitted
by someone else but for me to read
Submitted
by me |
|
Book,
article reviews |
Submitted
by someone else but for me to read
Submitted
by me |
|
Adlerian
cartoons, crossword puzzles, jokes column, |
Submitted
by someone else
Submitted
by me (Crossword?
Cartoon?
Jokes? Other? |
|
Articles
on Adlerian theory, concepts |
Submitted
by someone else but for me to read
Submitted
by me |
|
Four
Concepts to have articles about: (See concepts on page 5 for ideas) |
1
2
|
I’ll
write article(s) By someone else:
(Who?)
___________________________________ |
3
4
|
|
Articles
comparing Adlerian concepts or methods to other approaches: |
Gestalt
Therapy (Perls) Transactional Analysis (Berne) Narrative Therapy (White, Epston)
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (Bandler, Grinder)
Psycho-analysis (Freud) Hypnotherapy |
|
Analytic
psychology (Jung) Rational-Emotive-Behavior Therapy (Ellis) Cognitive-behavior therapy
Client Centered Therapy (Rogers) Harry Stack Sullivan Reality
Therapy, Choice |
|
Therapy
(Glasser) |
|
Application
of concepts to counseling, education, psychotherapy, coaching. |
1
2
|
Parenting.
(See concepts on page 5 for ideas)
I’ll
write article(s) By someone else |
3
4
|
|
Guest
articles (What topics? Adler’s life? NASAP history? Applying Adler’s Ideas?) |
Topics:
|
Write
down possible Guest Author names: |
Writers: |
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| From our third issue,
________, 20xx |
| |
| And from our fourth
issue, __________, 20xx |
| |
| And from our fifth
issue, __________, 20xx |
| [1-20-2010] |
