ADLERIAN HELP RELATIONS IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS

Abstract

The Adlerian Help Relations are eradicated in traditionally structured treatments: such as educational, counselling and psychotherapy ones. However, we are living, “hic et nunc”, an emergency due to the covid-19 pandemic where theinterventions need appropriate modular variations: in relation to an assessment, about the setting contents,in the psycho-clinic modulations. Among the various difficulties, we highlight the ones about communication, social and inter-individual distancing, consultations in hospitals or health structures, and psychotherapies “interrupted” or “ended” for subjective or objective causes. Various typologies of help relations emerge from these complex, sometimes penalizing, situations. We are talking about emergency psychology, phone consultations, “virtual” psychotherapies, crisis focused psychotherapies (not to be confused with short-term psychotherapies), etc. Both the assisted and carer teams have to adapt to new relational contexts, therefore they show a variation of the therapy modes with resistance or resilience reactions. Furthermore, they have worries and concerns about the future existential sequences in their psychopathological, economic and social aspects. With all these elements being considered, we wish for an increase of the scientific contributions and of the humanitarian cooperation. We also wish for a deepening of global cures, especially for psychological-clinic therapies. Moreover, we wish for an enrichment of the Social Cooperation aimed at a renewed Meaning of Life..