Push Button Techniques - Adler

Research by RKT

In the quest of self-actualization, I have discovered Adlerian Push Button Techniques

It has enlightened my journey, I invite you to see if his brilliance can teach you.

Richard Kerry Thompson

Push Button Technique

PUSH BUTTON  As noted earlier, Adlerian therapy has substantial common ground with cognitive and constructivist approaches to counseling. This technique provides another procedural example of this common ground.  In agreement with both cognitive and constructivist therapies, Adlerian therapy affirms that the meanings and interpretations individuals attribute to experiences greatly influences their emotions and behavior (Carlson, Watts, & Maniacci, 2006). PUSH BUTTON  The push button technique seeks to interrupt a depression and help clients become aware of their role in maintaining, or even creating, their unpleasant feelings (Carlson, Watts, & Maniacci, 2006; Mosak & Maniacci, 1998).  Although originally developed for working with clients struggling with depression, this technique can also be useful in working with other presenting problems because clients may benefit from realizing that they have primary control over their feelings rather than the people or situations they encounter when reorienting to life’s challenges. NOTES: ___________________________________________

A one or two word phrase that brings memories back Postive

An image that is negative -

AN image that is positive -

Imagine a concrete way

Scale of 1 - 10

ten is highest where is it?

Negative creates anxiety / Positive is calm

Thoughts because of the image have a profound effect on mood

control over emotions

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard_Watts8/publication/266078998_Effective_Interventions_for_Helping_Clients_in_Brief_Adlerian_Therapy/links/54d51bc90cf25013d02a8508/Effective-Interventions-for-Helping-Clients-in-Brief-Adlerian-Therapy.pdf

https://www.adlerpedia.org/concepts/91

An Image to bring peace

Designed to show patients how they can create whatever feelings they what by thinking about them, the push-button technique asks clients to remember a pleasant incident that they have experienced, become aware of feelings connected to it, and then switch to an unpleasant image and those feelings.