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Historical Context



Since its inception, Adlerian theory has been applied for the benefit of guiding children. Both in the home and school methods of respectful interaction, guidance, and remediation have been a staple of applied Individual Psychology. Several books and an undetermined number of parent education and coaching presentations and programs have been developed from Adler’s theory. Historically, the most prominent is probably Adler School founder, Rudolf Dreikurs’ book (written with Vicki Soltz), Children: The Challenge. This book gave birth to Dinkmeyer’s and McKay’s audio/print program called, Systematic Training for Effective Parenting. STEP is the most widely used parent education program in North America (AGS, 2001) and has inspired a number of other programs, including Popkin’s video/print program known as Active Parenting. Positive Discipline – produced by Nelson and her team, is a series of books covering home, classroom, and public behavior. This is yet another program which draws from Adlerian and Dreikursian thought. "

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