Rediscovering Dreikurs’s Open-Forum Counseling Format

Abstract: This article includes an open-forum counseling format developed by Rudolf Dreikurs and observed by James Albert Deutch in the early 1970s as a popular and effective method for working with families. This article includes a summary of James Albert Deutch’s career and his path to formulating Dreikurs’s method of facilitating open-forum counseling sessions in a detailed protocol called the FECH/FETCH: Open-Forum Counseling Format. The FECH/FETCH Format is included in this article and followed by responses from three contemporary Adlerians.