Childhood

Dale V Wayman, PhD

Getting Children to Pick Up Their Toys

This story about Adler's way of getting a 5-year-old to pick up his toys is told by Dr. Herbert Schaffer, President of the French...

Dale V Wayman, PhD

Kids and Video Games

Many kids play video games. Alfred Adler theorized that if you want to understand children watch them play. He and others indicated...

Dale V Wayman, PhD

Human Warfare

“The prejudice between nations and races are of course the basic causes of war -- that great scourge of mankind which must be abolished...

Dale V Wayman, PhD

Adler's Advice on Toy Buying and Pets

“As regards the selection of proper toys, a great deal could be said, but the principle is that we should select the type of toys that...

Dale V Wayman, PhD

Adlerian reflections on children resuming school

Schools in many parts of the world are opening or will be opening soon. Three questions for students that seem pertinent: 1) What did you...

Dale V Wayman, PhD

The Bedtime Formula

The Bedtime Formula is an Adlerian technique that I have used in many situations with children who have trouble getting to bed, often...

Dale V Wayman, PhD

Play Therapy: Six Recommendations

In counseling children, it's important to have a number of things in your office as children don't know that they are supposed to just...

Dale V Wayman, PhD

Hitting and Biting

PRESENTING ISSUE Four-year-old black male presents in the office with his mother. Mother noticed a "big change" in the patient towards...

Dale V Wayman, PhD

Pornography addiction or something else?

PRESENTING ISSUE There was a man who was a Sunday School teacher and on his church board who struggled with pornography. He would drive...

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