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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.” 01 1952 2012 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. 02 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.” 03 1952 2012 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 04 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. 05 1952 2012 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. 06 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 07 1952 2012 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. 08

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