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DRIVEN
BY
ALFRED
ADLER’S
PARADIGM-
SHIFTING
RULE-
BREAKING
REVOLUTIONARY
IDEAS
FOR
SIXTY
YEARS.
1952
2012
Adler School of Professional Psychology
2012 Annual Report
Leading socially
responsible practice
DRIVEN BY ALFRED ADLER’S PARADIGM-SHIFTING RULE- BREAKING REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS FOR SIXTY YEARS.
OUR HEALTH
RESIDES IN OUR
COMMUNITY
LIFE.
1870: Alfred Adler is born. He will become a physician,
psychotherapist, and the founder of Adlerian psychology,
sometimes called individual psychology—emphasizing
the human need and ability to create positive social
change and impact.
1933: Alfred Adler publishes Social Interest: A Challenge
to Mankind, introducing his concept of social interest.
1961: Rudolf Dreikurs publishes Social Equality:
The Challenge of Our Times through the Alfred Adler
Institute. In 1971, it is revised and republished as
Social Equality: Challenge of Today.
DRIVEN BY ALFRED ADLER’S PARADIGM-SHIFTING RULE- BREAKING REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS FOR SIXTY YEARS.
The Adler School of Professional Psychology
TODAY:
continues the work of the first community
psychologist, Alfred Adler, by graduating socially
responsible practitioners, engaging communities,
and advancing social justice.
Alfred Adler taught—as the Adler School Pender Community Health Clinic. “Developing
does today from its campuses in Chicago and the program required taking an organizational “The Socially Responsible
Vancouver—that people’s health resides in their psychology approach to training and structure, Practice Project” is a
communities. And today, that is why volunteer and how people react to changing structure, while recently published report
staff members at RainCity Housing in Vancouver’s applying Adler’s concept of social interest in how that articulates the
Downtown Eastside are trained peer-group environments produce function or dysfunction outcomes of a yearlong
facilitators—providing more than shelter for their that affect the individual.” series of conversations,
homeless clients who also deal with mental illness, His work—and much more like it over the last
events, and activities
addictions, and other challenges. 60 years—is the work of the Adler School in
throughout the
“Downtown Eastside is known throughout educating and training socially responsible
Adler School community.
Canada for the dreadful conditions for those practitioners not simply to provide services—but
The goal was to strengthen
who live there, many of whom have substance to lead social change for community well-being
our articulation and
abuse and mental health issues in addition to and improved health outcomes. Such work took
extreme poverty,” says Deb Bailey, M.A., place throughout the Vancouver and Chicago collective understanding
Community Service Practicum Coordinator at campuses in 2011-12, and continues as the of socially responsible
the Adler School in Vancouver. “I always talk to School begins its seventh decade, as faculty and practice—as the leading
students about completing projects that leave students expand the breadth and depth of the academic institution
an Adlerian footprint. In Dawson Wambolt’s work, School’s history of socially responsible practice advancing socially
the impact is very apparent.” and applied research. responsible practice,
During his first year of master’s study in “Alfred Adler’s concepts of social interest and
healthy communities, and
counselling psychology at the Adler School, socially responsible practice specifically inform
a more just society.
Wambolt completed his Community Service the School’s curriculum and training,” says Larry
Practicum (CSP) at RainCity Housing, a not-for- Axelrod, Ph.D., Vancouver Campus Dean. “As a The report can be found at adler.edu/srp.
profit that provides progressive housing solutions result, our students, like Dawson, are specifically
for the homeless throughout the Lower Mainland. prepared to support sustainable change in the
He developed and launched the peer-support environmental and community structures that
training for its Downtown Eastside location affect marginalized populations.”
staff—many of them formerly homeless Wambolt credits “Introduction to Adlerian
themselves—that enables them to apply basic Psychology and Psychopathology” as an
group interaction, crisis intervention, and instrumental Adler School course preparing him
additional skills in facilitating roundtable for his work in Downtown Eastside. Along with
discussions with clients. insights from students and faculty in his
Wambolt returned to RainCity throughout program, as well as others at the School, it
2011 and 2012—well after his CSP ended—to provided “the perspective and theory behind
continue supporting the training. More than a year what a sense of community can do,” he says.
after its launch, the peer-support program “This coursework informed the establishment
continues growing. of the peer training program. It was remarkable
“I was there to help meet the needs of the staff to apply theory to produce something that
as much as they meet the needs of the people ultimately took on a life of its own, and had
they serve,” says Wambolt, who remained in such a positive impact for a community and
Downtown Eastside for his clinical practicum, at the individuals involved.”
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Advancing parenting
and child guidance
DRIVEN BY ALFRED ADLER’S PARADIGM-SHIFTING RULE- BREAKING REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS FOR SIXTY YEARS.
At any given time, 1 in every
10
children and adolescents is affected
by serious emotional disturbances.
A SENSE OF CONNECTEDNESS WITH
FAMILY REDUCES NEARLY EVERY HEALTH
RISK BEHAVIOR, INCLUDING VIOLENCE,
DRUG AND ALCOHOL USE, SUICIDAL
THOUGHTS, AND EMOTIONAL DISTRESS.
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1921: Alfred Adler establishes the first Child Guidance Clinic
in Vienna, and lectures at Vienna’s Pedagogical Institute.
1938: Rudolf Dreikurs opens a Child Guidance Center on
the South Side of Chicago—the Abraham Lincoln Center—
offering parenting education and training to the community.
1941: Dreikurs establishes the second Chicago Guidance
Center at the Jane Addams Hull House Mary Crane Nursery.
Dreikurs and his family are Hull House residents.
1952: Dreikurs establishes a Child Guidance Center
in the Lake View neighborhood of Chicago.
DRIVEN BY ALFRED ADLER’S PARADIGM-SHIFTING RULE- BREAKING REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS FOR SIXTY YEARS.
Alfred Adler was one of the first in the field of psychology
TODAY:
to teach that the well-being of children and families is
interconnected with that of their communities. In 2011, the
Adler School established the Adler Child Guidance Center
(ACGC) to advance practice driven by that critical understanding.
The Adler Child Guidance Center, along with parenting sites. These are the sites where and other caregivers. Adler School students apply their
the LGBTQ Mental Health and Inclusion Center Adler School students teach parenting classes coursework and preparation to lead the programs.
(LMHIC), is one of two centers that the Adler in order to fulfill their course requirements, while At the School, ACGC sponsors open forums
School launched last year to enrich its distinctive also providing much-needed services to the at which students discuss parent education and
curricula and training for students, while providing community,” says Lindquist, who himself taught child guidance topics, and collaborates with the
professional development for practitioners and a “Positive Discipline” course at Chicago’s School’s M.A. in Marriage and Family Counseling
evidence-based programs for communities. Haymarket Center, a comprehensive alcohol and program and the Child and Adolescent Psychology
Among its programs, ACGC provides for drug treatment organization. track within the Doctor of Psychology in Clinical
the “Parent Education: Adlerian Theory and ACGC advocates that parenting can be joyful Psychology program.
Interventions” course taken by most Adler School and rewarding if care providers are supported In the year ahead, ACGC will continue building
students to develop their child guidance and and trained in how to raise children who are its outreach to parents of diverse race, gender,
parenting knowledge and skills. Through lecture, responsible, cooperative, and respectful of socio-economic, and geographic backgrounds,
class discussion, observation, and participative themselves and others. Those principles provide Dr. Rasmussen says. ACGC also is partnering
demonstrations, students are taught how to the foundation of most contemporary models for with the School’s Institute on Public Safety and
facilitate a parenting group, and are supervised parent education. Social Justice (IPSSJ) to specifically examine and
by faculty as they lead or co-lead parenting Yet, the Adlerian-Dreikursian approach address the significant parenting obstacles that
groups in the community. advanced through ACGC uniquely stands underprivileged families face.
In ACGC’s first year, doctoral student Thomas apart: It emphasizes core aspects of the human “As a trained clinical psychologist, I see
Lindquist, M.A., ATR, LPC, worked with Paul condition—such as the desire for a sense of a lot of the problems that people develop
Rasmussen, Ph.D., ACGC Director and Adler belonging—and places importance on supporting because they’re simply not prepared to meet the
School Core Faculty member, to collaborate parents and caregivers in all communities, challenges of adulthood,” Dr. Rasmussen says.
with community organizations to offer “Positive particularly the most vulnerable and underserved. “If children aren’t prepared, they are at risk for
Discipline” parenting programs based on the For this reason, ACGC provides accessible anxiety, depression, and many of the other clinical
principles of Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs. parenting training through free or low-cost conditions that we see in our profession.
“My specific role involved maintaining workshops, as well as free 6- to 8-week courses “Parenting is one of the most important
and building new community partnerships for through Chicago-area service agencies for parents things we’ll ever do in our lives.”
Training to support an underserved population: LGBTQ parents and families
In 2011, Jason LeCompte developed and taught examining the curriculum to adapt hetero-normative
a two-day “Positive Discipline” course for Chicago’s language to culturally appropriate terminology. The
LGBTQ-identified parenting community, as part of work also required identifying and providing a safe
a parenting class at the Adler School. space for LGBTQ-identified parents to connect and
Overwhelming community response led him share experiences, as they learned the respectful,
to apply for and receive a prestigious Schweitzer non-punitive, and skill-enhancing approaches
Fellowship to teach the eight-week course again developed by Rudolf Dreikurs for raising children.
in 2012-13. LeCompte was one of only 31 fellows— “Jason’s commitment to providing this much-
named among “Chicago’s best and brightest health needed service is a testament to his advocacy for
professional students” by the Chicago Area this underserved group,” says Kevin Osten, Psy.D.,
Schweitzer Fellows Program—receiving the award LeCompte’s faculty mentor for the fellowship and
to design and implement projects that improve the Director of the Adler School’s LGBTQ Mental Health Among U.S. couples who identify
health and well-being of underserved communities. and Inclusion Center (LMHIC). themselves as gay, lesbian, or
Pursuing his M.A. in Marriage and Family LeCompte says, “It’s about gender equality, transgender, about 20 percent are
Counseling at the Adler School, LeCompte says helping parents communicate better with their raising children under the age of 18.
developing the course for LGBTQ parents required children, and creating stronger families.”
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Pioneering new
approaches linking policy
and mental health
DRIVEN BY ALFRED ADLER’S PARADIGM-SHIFTING RULE- BREAKING REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS FOR SIXTY YEARS.
SOCIAL
GOVERNMENT
DETERMINANTS OF
DECISIONS POPULATION
MENTAL HEALTH
Legislation, policy, HEALTH OUTCOMES
programs, and plans Conditions in which
we are born, grow,
live, work,
and age

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1898: Alfred Adler publishes Health Book for the Tailor
Trade, linking medical problems of tailors with poor living
and working conditions, which lays the foundation for the
study of mental health social determinants.
2004: The Adler School Board of Trustees refines the vision
of the Adler School, based on its Adlerian heritage, to focus
on socially responsible practice and social justice; a year
later, the Institute on Social Exclusion (ISE) is established.
2010: The ISE hosts “The Social Determinants of Mental
Health: From Awareness to Action,” the first-ever conference
on the subject, featuring the 16th U.S. Surgeon General
David Satcher as keynote speaker.
DRIVEN BY ALFRED ADLER’S PARADIGM-SHIFTING RULE- BREAKING REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS FOR SIXTY YEARS.
In summer 2012, the Adler School Institute on Social
TODAY:
Exclusion (ISE) completed a first-of-its-kind Mental Health Impact
Assessment (MHIA) in collaboration with residents of Englewood, a
primarily low-income, African-American community in Chicago plagued
by poverty, crime, violence, poor-quality housing, and many other
social and environmental conditions that impact mental health.
Among the Chicago Police Department’s 25 The ISE assembled an MHIA project team that
Changing how policy-
districts, the district that includes the Englewood included Adler School faculty, staff, and students,
community has the city’s sixth highest number of as well as representatives from the U.S. Centers makers, practitioners,
arrests. Many never lead to convictions. for Disease Control and Prevention, the Safer and communities think
Yet employers often do not hire job applicants Foundation, Sargent Shriver National Center on
about mental health
based on arrest records. This practice exacerbates Poverty Law, Teamwork Englewood, Imagine
already disproportionally high unemployment Englewood IF, Englewood Community Health
rates among Latinos and African-Americans. In Clinic, the Chicago and Illinois departments of The ISE and its new Center on the
vulnerable communities like Englewood, that can public health, the Northern Illinois University Social Determinants of Mental Health
affect income and other social determinants Public Health Program, the University of Illinois at continue work with MHIA that includes:
directly linked to community well-being. Chicago School of Public Health, and the State
> Developing a health impact
“Arrests profoundly impact employability, of Illinois Re-entry Employment Service Program.
assessment (HIA) program that will
employability impacts income, and income After literature review; analysis of public health,
build regional capacity for conducting
impacts access to housing, healthcare, and arrest, and other data; a community survey; and
MHIAs and HIAs. This will include
educational opportunity,” says Lynn Todman, focus groups and interviews with police officers,
cultivating and expanding the local
Ph.D., Adler School Vice President for Leadership employers, and community residents, the MHIA HIA and MHIA workforce through
in Social Justice, and Institute on Social team compiled research that provided the basis collaborations with local public health
Exclusion (ISE) Executive Director. for a policy brief submitted as public comment on and mental health bodies, and
An expert on the relationship between the proposed revision. The EEOC revised its policy Chicago-based institutions of higher
public policy and the mental health of urban guidance in April, in a manner consistent with education.
communities, Dr. Todman led the ISE in a the MHIA findings.
> Providing technical assistance to
groundbreaking Mental Health Impact Among the impacts the MHIA team predicted: local and regional bodies seeking to
Assessment (MHIA) project that examined the The new policy guidance, if adhered to, may conduct HIAs and MHIAs.
impact on the mental health of communities reduce social exclusion and increase social
> Educating lawmakers, policymakers,
with high arrest rates when employers use capital and psychological sense of community.
service providers, community-based
arrest records in their hiring, firing, and Consequently, individual and collective mental
organizations’ staff, media, and the
promotion decisions. health could improve in communities like
general public on how legislative and
“MHIA highlights the connection between Englewood, where large numbers of people with policy decisions affect the social
non-health policy domains—in this case, arrest records live. This winter, the ISE will release conditions that shape mental health
employment and labor—and mental health a full report of its findings. outcomes—and how to integrate that
outcomes at the community level,” Dr. Todman “Mental health is not simply biologically or knowledge into decision-making
says. “The MHIA’s main goal is to engage genetically determined,” Dr. Todman says. processes.
stakeholders in assessing the mental health “Research shows that more than half—by some
> Expanding work to address physical
impact of proposed policy or legislation before it estimates, up to 70 percent—of health outcomes health, reflecting the fact that mental
is enacted, to ensure that decisions create social are determined by social factors. health and physical health
environments that promote health and well-being.” “Our work highlights a different approach considerations can and should be
The MHIA was conducted as the U.S. Equal to health promotion, by addressing the ways part of policy analysis.
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in which legislation and public policy of all
> Continuing to integrate the social
considered revision to its 1990 “Guidance on the types play a key role in shaping mental health
determinants framework into the Adler
Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in outcomes and overall health and well-being— School’s curricular and co-curricular
Employment Decisions Under Title VII of the Civil especially that of our most vulnerable and activities.
Rights Act of 1964,” intended to eliminate marginalized communities.”
adler.edu/ise
unlawful discrimination in employment.
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Advocating
community-based
mental health
DRIVEN BY ALFRED ADLER’S PARADIGM-SHIFTING RULE- BREAKING REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS FOR SIXTY YEARS.
More than 87 million people
live in designated mental health
professional shortage areas.
10,000 1
IT WOULD TAKE MORE THAN 5,700
PRACTITIONERS TO MEET THEIR
NEEDS—A POPULATION-TO-
PRACTITIONER RATIO OF 10,000:1.
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1967: The Alfred Adler Institute begins the Teacher
Development Center with a school in Rockford, Illinois,
preparing teachers to use Adlerian theory and principles.
The initiative is the precursor for many similar programs.
1972: The Dreikurs Psychological Services Center,
the precursor of Adler Community Health Services,
is established as a community mental health center
and as a training site for the Alfred Adler Institute.
2006: Following a community-based needs assessment,
the Adler School revises curricula for all degree programs
to produce socially responsible practitioners.
DRIVEN BY ALFRED ADLER’S PARADIGM-SHIFTING RULE- BREAKING REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS FOR SIXTY YEARS.
Traditionally, psychology is one-on-one counseling for those
TODAY:
who can afford it. In the rule-breaking approach pioneered by Adler
and our founders, the Adler School trains practitioners to work with
communities—to provide mental health care for all who need it.
To get to class, the elementary school students at formerly incarcerated men and women attempting They met regularly with each other and with
St. Dorothy School on Chicago’s South Side must to re-enter society; a juvenile corrections center; Dr. Vogel, discussing the most effective application
walk streets where drug deals are common. a primary-care medical clinic serving the home- of practice models from their Adler School
Some have witnessed shootings; some have less and people with HIV; and three high schools coursework to the situations they addressed.
lost loved ones to gang violence or incarceration. serving students, teachers, and community By the end of the year, Dr. Vogel says, the Adler
Many live in single-parent households. Others do residents, as well as St. Dorothy School. School students were functioning “as if they were
not live with their parents. They stay with other “Alfred Adler himself advocated for community- born child therapists. The children moved from
family members, moving from home to home. based health. So we support that by partnering a place of helplessness and hopelessness, to
To provide mental health support for these with organizations that serve underserved feeling more positive and being more articulate in
students, along with their families and the entire populations,” says Dan Barnes, Ph.D., ACHS the classroom, and open about experiences they
school community, St. Dorothy School partnered Director. “We send our clinicians to our partner kept hidden. Our students forged close
with Adler Community Health Services (ACHS) sites to offer services to people in their relationships with children in pain, and helped
in 2011. In doing so, St. Dorothy joined the communities. At the same time, we are training them feel a sense of hope.”
ever-expanding network of agencies working our own students to become socially responsible Michele Goldman, a fourth-year Psy.D.
with the Adler School to help strengthen practitioners.” candidate who also received her M.A. at the
vulnerable communities. Daniel Vogel, Psy.D., ACHS Staff Psychologist, Adler School, was one of those students. “I feel
ACHS partners with established agencies led the team that set up a counseling center at as though helping to shape a practicum site pulled
to provide intern- and externship training for St. Dorothy School. There, he oversaw the work from so many skills learned in the classroom,” she
Adler School doctoral students, who provide the of four clinicians-in-training and one post- says. “Most of the work we did came back to
agencies’ underserved populations with services doctoral resident. community psychology. I was constantly thinking
such as psychotherapy and counseling; The externs worked with two St. Dorothy about the Bronfenbrenner ecological model, and
psychological assessments; consultations; and students who revealed they suffered significant really took to viewing the practicum experience
psychoeducational workshops and groups. abuse, a 13-year-old disentangling himself from gang from a systems perspective.
Adler School students are carefully selected for involvement, and the fallout of a case of “sexting.” “We were working with individuals, but we
the competitive training positions supervised by They addressed a systemic problem with bullying were also working with family systems, a school
ACHS’ licensed clinical psychologists. ACHS at the school, working to improve a sense of system, and a larger community. To be as
partner sites include two adult transition centers community and connection in the classroom. They successful as we were, we needed the larger
serving men during the work-release phases of worked through much more, while accommodating systems to engage.”
their imprisonment; two rehabilitation centers for hectic teacher and student schedules.
Training more socially responsible practitioners than ever in our history
The need for practitioners is significant. The need Chicago and Vancouver provided more than
for socially responsible practitioners is critical. In 650,000 direct service hours in 2011-12 to
2011-12, the Adler School placed and trained more advance community health—in collaboration with
students than ever before in its history—in practica, the School’s more than 700 partnering community
internships, and externships preparing them as the agencies. 650,
700
socially responsible practitioners so needed in In spring 2012, the Corporation for National 000
today’s communities and world. and Community Service for the third consecutive
The Adler School’s master’s-level and doctoral year named the Adler School to a coveted spot on
preparation and training of students focuses on the annual President’s Higher Education Community
Adler School students in 2011-12 provided
underserved populations through Community Service Service Honor Roll. The Honor Roll is the highest
more than 650,000 direct service hours
and Community Engagement practicums, clinical acknowledgment an institute of higher learning can
to advance community health in collaboration
practicums, and internships, along with associated receive from the U.S. government in recognition
with more than 700 partnering agencies.
seminars and coursework. of its dedication to service learning, volunteerism,
Through these training and community and community engagement.
engagement placements, Adler School students in
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Supporting models
for systemic change
DRIVEN BY ALFRED ADLER’S PARADIGM-SHIFTING RULE- BREAKING REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS FOR SIXTY YEARS.
Federal and state corrections facilities
held more than 1.6 million prisoners
at the end of 2010, approximately one
of every 201 U.S. residents.
95
%
AT LEAST 95 PERCENT OF STATE
PRISONERS WILL BE RELEASED
BACK TO THEIR COMMUNITIES
AT SOME POINT.
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