Using Adlerian personality priorities to custom-design consultation with parents of play therapy clients.

The authors describe a model of using Adlerian personality priorities to guide play therapists in their consultation with parents of their clients. Parent consultation is an important function of the play therapist, particularly because it holds such promise for reinforcing the positive changes of clients. Using an Adlerian model of consultation that emphasizes personality priorities in the design and implementation of the consultation helps when dealing with parental consultation for two reasons: (1) this model offers the advantage of a straightforward four stage approach, with a significant theoretical grounding, (2) play therapists utilizing personality priorities to custom-design their consultation can anticipate the sources of parental resistance and plan approaches that circumvent or prevent many potential problems. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)