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Adlerian Counseling and the Early Recollections of Children

This investigation used a descriptive approach to explore and evaluate early recollection changes of children in Adlerian counseling. The study addressed seven research questions regarding early recollection change for children in Adlerian counseling as compared with children not in Adlerian counseling.
The treatment group was engaged in Adlerian counseling for 10 weeks. The investigator conducted pre-counseling and post-counseling interviews to collect six total early recollections from 9 subjects.
The comparison group was not engaged in treatment for counseling. The investigator conducted interviews at an interval of 10 weeks to collect six total early recollections from 9 subjects.
The Manaster-Perryraan Manifest Content Early Recollection Scoring Manual was used for analysis of early recollection content. Following training sesions, raters scored absence or presence of content variables in early recollections.
Tables were employed to reveal findings of early recollection content change as addressed by the seven research questions of this study. A descriptive evaluation of' the data indicated that the treatment group manifested greater change in early recollection content as compared to the comparison group in six of seven research questions.
On the basis of these findings, this study concluded that early recollections of children are a valid source of potential in measuring therapeutic progress and are a reliable measure of the thematic apperception of children. The data from this study provide a foundation from which to build the clinical utility of the early recollections of children.
In view of these results, this study recommended the routine use of early recollections of children in Adlerian counseling.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc330874
Date05 1900
CreatorsStatton, Jane Ellis Porter
ContributorsWilborn, Bobbie L., Burke, Angela J., Norton, E. Douglas
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Format379 N81d no.3191, Text
RightsPublic, Statton, Jane Ellis Porter, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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