Publications
Furthering the pioneering
work of Alfred Adler.
Strategic Plan
Adler School founder Rudolf Dreikurs wrote, “We all do only what we decide.” In our recently published Strategic Plan, the Adler School, after a long history of spectacular achievements since 1952, has decided what achievements we will secure by 2015. The plan is the product of the hard work and interaction of faculty, staff, students, alumni, partners, and trustees in Chicago and Vancouver across many months. The inclusive planning conversation has proven to be as valuable as the resultant plan itself.
Annual Reports
Each fall, the Adler School publishes its annual report charting our achievements and outlining our plans for continued success during the new academic year and beyond.
It’s been a good year. (2011 Annual Report)
Meeting ambitious goals. Preparing greater numbers of future practitioners. Building new support, and being nationally recognized for our advocacy, practice, and approaches. In these challenging times, these are things to be proud of. And we are. It’s been a good year for the Adler School. And what’s important about that is the “why.”
A school as innovative as he was (2010 Annual Report)
Alfred Adler laid the foundation for what we recognize today as community psychology.He based his pioneering approach on what he called gemeinschaftsgefühl (social interest), or the connection between individual and community health. The Adler School continues this groundbreaking work by training psychologists and other practitioners committed to individual and community health.Innovation, at the Adler School, is threaded through the broadened perspective we teach, the process by which we make socially responsible graduates, and the impact we have on our local, national, and global communities.
A Magazine for Alumni and Friends
Published annually, Gemeinschaftsgefühl features compelling accounts of the impact our socially responsible students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends are making on their communities—as well as news, initiatives and events of the Adler School.
Gemeinschaftsgefühl, or social interest, is the Adlerian term used to describe one’s connectedness and interest in the well-being of others that enhances or pre-conditions psychological health. It is also the revolutionary notion that Alfred Adler proposed in turn-of-the-century Vienna that drives the Adler School’s ground-breaking and far-reaching curricula and commitment to community engagement.
Featured in our latest issue, Healing Urban Dis-Ease (Summer 2011):
- Leading Social Change: At the forefront of military clinical psychology, LGBTQ mental health and online education practice
- Teaming Up on Community Health: Youth sports. Community banking. Minority hiring on public works projects. What’s mental health got to do with it?
- Weighing the Effects: Advancing practice and community voice on decisions that affect community and mental health through Mental Health Impact Assessment.
- Conversations on Social Change: Talking with Adlerian scholar, psychologist and author Paul Rasmussen, Ph.D.
- Our Alumni: Leading Change in the World: Cultivating hope and healing in the displaced persons camps of Haiti
- The Global View: Partnering, presenting and advocating socially responsible practice throughout the world
- Leading Thought in the Field: Forward thinking and news from the Adler School
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