nformation about the clients family and their early memories. Then the counselor should share his or her interpretation of the client and try to build a restorative relationship.Adler’s goals for the client were to help them develop a healthy, complete lifestyle, and to help them overcome feelings of inferiority. He developed a 12 stage process to help a client reach his or her goals. These stages are:Stage one: the empathy-relationship stage, Stage two: the information stage, Stage three: the clarification stage, Stage four: the encouragement stage, Stage five: the interpretation and recognition stage, Stage six: the knowing stage, Stage seven: the missing experience stage, Stage eight: the doing it differently stage, Stage nine: the reinforcement stage, Stage ten: the community feeling stage, Stage eleven: the goal-redirection stage, and Stage twelve: the support and launching stage. Adler embedded in these 12 stages four main strategies describing his technique. They are: assessment, Socratic questioning, guided and eidetic imagery, and role-playing. By using these techniques a counselor can help a client to become the person they desire to be.Adler developed his theory, and these steps to be used in an open environment, where people are not restricted, and counselors can practice with out being supervise. I believe that Adler’s theory can not be used for a monthly counseling, but it can be used by the military’s mental health department. The theory relies on the establishment and maintenance on a n egalitarian counseling relationship. In this relationship, the counselor and the client must be equals. In soldier counseling, however, the soldier can not be equal to the counselor. I this were to occur, there would be a brake down in the respect between the counselor and the soldier, and military discipline would be lost. Rank structure plays a vital role in what makes the Army work. When a Staff Sergeant ...
