Individual Psychology Research, Pedagogy, and Clinical Practice

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Individual Psychology Research, Pedagogy, and Clinical Practice Jon Sperry and Len Sperry It is with great sadness that we start this issue with a short dedication to Harold Mosak written by Crossman and Bluvshtein. Mosak died on June 1, 2018, at the age of 96 years. This dedication reviews his many contributions to the mental health profession and the theory of Individual Psychology. The next article is a conversation with Parsons and the coeditors of the Journal of Individual Psychology (JIP), Sperry and Sperry. The conversation includes a discussion of the future of the journal through a discussion of challenges and strengths of the journal, and also their efforts to encourage Adlerian practitioners and researchers to advocate and seek evidence-based status for Individual Psychology. In "Sibling Niches and the Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder," Rassmussen, Self, Few, and Worthen examined ADHD from an Adlerian perspective through their empirical study. A highlight of their study includes the one-in-four probability of ADHD diagnosis for younger brothers who have a sister in a two-sibling family. They discussed the controversy of this disorder and also urge that practitioners assess goal-oriented behavior and the family constellation when treating children diagnosed with this disorder. Another empirical article, "Adlerian Personality Priority Assessment: A Psychometric Evaluation," by Dillman Taylor and Mullen examined the psycho metric properties of this measure with 1,019 participants. The Adlerian Personality Priority Assessment assists practitioners and researchers with assessing their client's view of self, view of others, and view of the world. Consequently, the use of this measure assists practitioners in actively engaging in case conceptualization. The authors' findings provided evidence for an 18-item, four-factor solution while also contributing to the reliability and validity of this instrument. [End Page 93] "Two Points on a Line: An Innovative Lifestyle Assessment Technique for Guessing in the Right Direction," is a clinical piece by Guttenberg and Sebian-Lander. Developed by Rudolf Dreikurs, the technique known as two points on a line is used to assess a client's lifestyle themes and line of psychological movement. This article reviews background information, application suggestions, and a case study. Davis, Norton, and Chapman discuss how music can be used to teach Adlerian case conceptualization in their article "Using Music for Case Conceptualization: Looking Through an Adlerian Lens." This pedagogical strategy offers Adlerian educators and supervisors creative methods for using music in training students to understand case conceptualization from an Adlerian perspective. The article includes content about Adlerian case conceptualization and demonstrates the process with a case example. As a follow-up to a recent special issue, Sperry and Binensztok include a case conceptualization and therapy transcription to demonstrate the application of Adlerian Pattern-Focused Therapy in their article titled "Adlerian Pattern-Focused Therapy in Clinical Practice." Because of space limitations for that issue, the decision was made to move the session transcription that appeared in the original treatment manual to this subsequent issue of Journal of Individual Psychology. [End Page 94] Copyright © 2019 University of Texas Press