NASAP Sections

AP serves professionals who identify as Adlerian or who seek to understand, implement, and develop Adlerian perspectives, techniques, and strategies in serving others. We support and encourage the development of Adlerian Professionals by providing training, resources, and networking opportunities. AP maintains a listserv of practicing Adlerians to aid in the promotion and networking of Adlerian Professionals. AP is interested in supporting fellow Adlerians and making Adlerian ideas accessible to the broader communities. This includes treatment providers serving in any setting or modality.

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Objectives:

To serve as a home to all service professionals who identify as Adlerian, and who adopt Adlerian perspectives, techniques, and strategies in serving others.

To support, encourage, and promote the work of Adlerian service providers, and to aid in disseminating these perspectives and making them accessible beyond NASAP membership.

To serve a role in promoting the development of Adlerian Psychology to serve the needs of an evolving and changing society.

To provide networking and publicity opportunities for members of AP.

Function of AP Section:

AP section leaders and committee will maintain and develop a membership listserve including understanding of members interests and training.

Develop an inventory of the expertise and interests of AP members and to support and encourage their work.

To promote and develop training on Adlarian practices and make these accessible to those in and outside of NASAP membership.

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Section Reps: Shelby Muhn & Connie Victor

Members are professionals and non-professionals in the field of education. Our members include: teachers, school counselors, school psychologists, administrators, professors, and parents dedicated to promoting Adlerian principles as best practices in their school environments. Our goals include the sharing and exchange of information, research, and online classes for educators. Additionally, we offer workshops at the annual NASAP conference designed to assist educators. We welcome feedback, ideas, and encourage our members to submit newsletter articles.

Section Reps: Jody Malterre and Eva Dwight

The Family Education Section applies Adlerian principles to the home. Members are professionals and nonprofessionals dedicated to understanding and improving family relationships between children and adults, within couples, and among individuals. Our purpose is "to create a forum and network for exchanging ideas, materials, and resources related to Adlerian Family Education; to reduce isolation and discouragement among individuals and small groups who do not have access to on-going community support; to encourage the development of increasingly effective methods for the research, collection, and dissemination of information related to Family Education; and to support and highlight the work already in existence in Family Education.

Section Reps: Bob Saxner and Marjie Longshore

IP is motivated to keep Adlerian Psychology a viable and relevant point of reference on human betterment and how we approach treatment, across service professions.

We are interested in the expansion, development, and dissemination of Adlerian Psychology, through its integration with compatible perspectives and approaches. This includes the integration of research evidence, practices, treatment modalities, and interventions that reflect and reaffirm the best aspects of Adlerian Psychology.

IP strives to be a welcoming home for professionals of all disciplines and approaches. We are committed to developing offerings that are attractive to a broad range of service professionals through aspiring to the highest operating training standards across human service professions.

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Objectives:

Serve as an inviting home for professionals who align with Adlerian perspectives who may or may not identify as Adlerian.

To develop Adlerian psychology and approaches to account for new practices and findings regarding treatment of others.

To remain aware of training standards for helping professions and to ensure that NASAP trainings meet these standards so as to make NASAP attractive and relevant to service providers across a broad range of professions.

To provide networking and publicity opportunities for IP members.

Function of the IP Section:

IP section leaders and committee will maintain and develop a membership listserve including understanding of members interests and training.

Develop an inventory of professions being served by NASAP IP, and understanding of training standards for professions.

To promote and develop trainings that involve the integration of Adlerian psychology with compatible perspectives and approaches, when it comes to areas of human betterment and treatment.

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Section Reps: Grace Jacobson and Amy Ross

The purpose of the Social Justice Section shall be to serve all members of NASAP, as well as the larger human community by:

To inspire worldwide advocacy for diversity and representation in NASAP implementing Adlerian core values

To Recognize and empower all types of intersectional identities as the first step to social justice

To promote meaningful and ongoing social justice starting from within the organization

To foster a sense of belonging where a welcoming and affirming community is the cornerstone of our work

To strengthen NASAP via increasing diversity and representation, intersectional identity recognition, and empowerment

To heal and transform social wounds utilizing Adlerian core values

To facilitate sense of belonging, welcoming, affirming environment within NASAP

To work towards decreasing injustice inside and outside of NASAP, bring change, educate on social justice issues, meaningful, ongoing, long term, difficult conversations, transformative change, awareness, and reduce stigma

To facilitate meetings, symposiums, and presentations on social justice and diversity for NASAP


To provide support to members on social justice and diversity


To foster research and publication of materials on social justice and diversity

TLC applies Adlerian principles to enhance how individuals, groups, communities, businesses, and organizations may engage in transformative leadership for creating positive social change. Adlerian principles of social interest underpin transformative leadership and coaching to support our members in understanding their role to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, shared responsibility, and accountability.

Coaching, as described by the International Coach Federation (ICF), is a creative collaboration between clients and coaches intended to inspire clients to increase their self-awareness, self-confidence, effectiveness, and capacity to deliver impactful results.

Adlerian principles fortify strengths-based coaching to enhance connection, belonging and courage as well as for advancing social equality. Adlerian principles encourage persons to realize their full potential, and contribute to the realization of the full potential in others. This Transformative Leadership & Coaching section blends many Adlerian practices in supporting collective well-being for positive social change.

Section Reps: Pascale Brady and Kevin O'Connor

The Theory, Research, and Teaching Section (TRT) encourages the theoretical development of Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology through scholarly research and the teaching of this orientation at the undergraduate and graduate levels. We provide symposiums and presentations, facilitate meetings at our annual convention, and support one another as we extend the scientific and academic frontier of Individual Psychology. Members of the TRT Section join together, regardless of focus or application, and strive to keep Individual Psychology relevant and applicable.

Section Reps: Daniel Williamson and Jennifer Williamson