1. The lifestyle assessment includes information based on dreams.

2. Adlerians use only cognitive techniques.

3. An Adlerian counselor views personal problems of the client as an end result of a process of discouragement.

4. The principle of basic mistakes accounts for the consistency and directionality of an individual's psychological movement.

5. Adler stresses the unity of personality, reliving early childhood experiences, feelings of inferiority, and a unique style of life that is an expression of life goals.

6. Adlerians consider psychological position in the family, birth order, interactions among siblings, and parent/child relationships to be influential in an individual's life.

7. According to Adler, childhood experiences themselves are not as crucial as the person's attitude toward such experiences.

8. In the Adlerian view, insights gained in therapy must be translated into a constructive action program to be of value.

9. Consciousness, not the unconscious, is considered to be the center of personality.

10. The approach is grounded on the medical model.

11. Feelings of inferiority can be the wellspring of creativity.

12. Early influences can predispose a child to a faulty lifestyle.

13. The Adlerian therapeutic goal is symptom removal.

14. Counseling is not best directed by the expertise of the therapist.

15. Insight is best defined as understanding translated into action.

16. Adlerians do interpret.

17. Adlerians confront faulty beliefs.

18. Fictional finalism refers to the central goal that guides a person's behavior.

Rather than focusing on past events, people are best understood by looking at their movement toward goals. Although they are influenced by their early childhood experiences, individuals are not passively shaped and determined by these experiences. People have a basic need to be superior, that is, to overcome their feelings of inferiority. Fictional finalism is an imagined central goal offering direction to behavior and unity to the personality - an image of what a person would be if he/or she were perfect and secure.

The Adlerian notion of "life tasks" is that all humans must face and solve certain problems universal to human life, including the tasks of friendship, work, and intimacy. Reorientation is the phase of the counseling process when clients are helped to redirect their mistaken goals and basic beliefs with more objective outlooks.

Adlerian psychology is not a form of ego psychology. The Adlerian psychologist feels that people remember only those past events that are consistent with their current views of themselves.