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Open forum counseling, a service delivery modality unique to Individual Psychology, was developed by Alfred Adler in the years after World War I at Centers for the Guidance of Parents. Usually, an individual or a family is interviewed in front of an audience as a means of educating the audience about Individual Psychology. The authors address ethical issues regarding informed consent in open forum counseling. Respecting the rights, autonomy, and dignity of the client is the cornerstone of a good therapeutic relationship in Individual Psychology. Informed consent is an ethical and sometimes legal mandate to inform the client(s) in a professional relationship about the limits of confidentiality as well as the nature, possible risks, and possible benefits of their treatment prior to obtaining their consent to participate in this treatment. The authors propose a process for obtaining informed consent and an informed-consent form as means of enacting a respectful relationship with the volunteer(s) in open forum counseling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders is an emerging multidisciplinary field. Behavioral sleep medicine integrates what is known about sleep and the factors that disrupt it with the strategies and techniques of psychotherapy. The conceptual foundations of insomnia treatment are circadian dysrhythmia, homeostatic dysregulation, and hyperarousal. These processes are incorporated into the cognitive-behavioral treatment of insomnia, which is based on a biopsychosocial formulation: an integration of the biology, the beliefs and behaviors related to sleep, the lifestyle, and the interpersonal/social context of the person. In this article, these sleep processes are defined and integrated into the basic assumptions of Individual Psychology and Adlerian psychotherapy. A case study illustrates the assessment and treatment process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]