Adlerian Therapy Series- Encouragement Worksheet

Preliminaries

Adlerian Therapy is an encouragement-focused, growth model anchored on the perspective of optimism. Using this lens of positivity, Adlerian therapists see clients as capable, responsible, and abled. Furthermore, the approach dwells on resilience, hope, prevention, drive toward the future, and resourcefulness.

Adlerians see behavioral problems as a manifestation of a person’s discouragement. They do not embrace the idea of curing a behavioral problem, instead, they see counseling as a process of encouraging a person.

This worksheet aims to assess a counselor’s level of encouragement, a vital characteristic required if one aims to practice Adlerian Therapy.

Worksheet

Read the following situations and assess yourself how true or untrue are they in your life as a counselor.

Encircle your rating in the second column and write your rating in the third column.

Question	Rating	Score
	1- Very Untrue of Me 2- Somewhat Untrue of Me 3- Unsure 4- Somewhat True of Me 5- Very True of Me
I recognize and appreciate the efforts of others who are doing a great job.	1 2 3 4 5
When someone is experiencing hardship, it is automatic for me to encourage them to never give up.	1 2 3 4 5
I feel the urge to do something encouraging for people I know who are discouraged.	1 2 3 4 5
I have the skill to encourage someone to face his/her worst fears.	1 2 3 4 5
I know the right words of encouragement for someone who is feeling down.	1 2 3 4 5
When I see someone who lacks confidence, I find it my responsibility to give words of encouragement to that person.	1 2 3 4 5
Others were able to achieve greater heights as my words of encouragement helped them believe they actually could.	1 2 3 4 5
My encouraging words gave hope to someone during a difficult time in that person’s life.	1 2 3 4 5
I feel happy when someone I know succeeds in life.	1 2 3 4 5
When I know that my acts of encouragement helped them to become better people, I feel happy.	1 2 3 4 5

Total your scores from the third column. After getting the total score, look at the level of your Encouragement Skill based on the range below:

Total Score:
Level of Encouragement Skill

Range	Description
1-10	A counseling profession may not be the best career choice.
11-20	Adlerian Therapy may not be for you.
21-30	A little practice and you are on your way there!
31-40	You are a natural encourager!
41-50	Alfred Adler will be very proud of you!

What are your realizations and action plans based on your total score and its description?

Reference:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7932831/

https://ebrary.net/8821/psychology/traditional_intervention_strategies

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330858534_The_Encouragement_Character_Strength_Scale_Scale_Development_and_Psychometric_Properties

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276314248_The_Psychology_of_Encouragement

You can download more Mental Health worksheets here.

Please note: There may be a more up-to-date and editable version of this worksheet available here which may be more suitable to present to clients if you are a therapist or to use in a classroom as a teacher or guidance counselor.