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Creator of Reality Therapy

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Will Gasser

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Reality Therapy A

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Deals with conscious behavioral problems. it is imperative that clients self-evaluate, develop, and commit to a plan of action.

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Reality Therapy B

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provides a structure in which clients and therapist can measure the degree and nature of changes being made. Goal are specific, and clients are held accountable for not following through

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Reality Therapy C

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Reality therapy introdices a new way of looking at mental illness. Glasser reports that psychosis is directly related to unfulfilled needs. Psychotic people have been unable to figure out satisfying behavior and have turned to living with unrealistic disortios as a way to cope with pain the experience.

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Reality Therapy D

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Reality therapy can be easily appied to multicultural counsling. It's focus on acting and thinking my appeal more then identifying and exploring feelings. Also, clients are responsible for determining what behavior they want to change, and the therapist is respectufl of those decisions.

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Four Human Needs

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Belonging, Power, Freedom, Fun

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Fun

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This our need for laughter, humor, activites and hobbies in our lives.

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Power

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This is our need to be capable, in charge, and better then others at times.

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Beloning

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This includes the need to love, share, and cooperate. Family, friends, pets, hobbies, or even plants meet this need.

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Freedom

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This refers to how we wish to live our lives, how we wish to express ourselves, the people we wish we knew, and others areas of human experience.

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Control theory

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A view that individuals try to control the world and themselves as apart of that world in order to satisfy their psychological needs.

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Friendly involvement

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the procces of building a relationship with a clients that serves as the underpinnings of reality therapy.

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Positive Addiction

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Repeating and practicing positive behaviors such as running or meditating so that individuals develop better access to their creativity and the strength to deal with problems in their lives. Discomfort develops when indivduals stop thes behaviors.

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Responsibility

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The process of satisfying one's own needs without interfering with others' fulfullment of their needs.

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Depressed state

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People do not become miserable or sad, rather, they "choose to depress." One may initially feel saddened after a traumatic event, but to maintain that sadness is to choose to maintain it

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Life is influenced by the four components of "total behavior"

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Doing, Thinking, Feeling, Physiology

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Doing

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our active behavior such as walking, talking, or moving in some way. They can be voluntary or involuntary.

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Thinking

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generating thoughts and self-statements. These can be voluntary or involuntary

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Feeling

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our feelings, both pleasurable and painful.

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Physiology

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voluntary and involuntary bodily mechanisms such as sweating or developing pyschosomatic symptoms

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Glaser uses what kind of example of total behavior

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A car!!! The two front wheels are doing and thinking, which steers us along. the back wheels are feeling and physiology. It is hard to steer the back wheels (Aka change feeling) without steering the front two wheels (change doing and thinking), but the front wheels can change/turn independent of what the back wheels are doing/what we are feeling

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Glasser emphasis what

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Responsibility!!! The goal of reality therapy is to engage in behavior that satisfies one's needs in ways that do not interfer with others' fulfilling their needs. Responsible people have learned to take effective contro over their lives.

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Reality therapy is commonly use with what type of clients

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adolescence, criminals, and people with disabilites.

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Assessment

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Does not address the issue of assessment, rather fucuses on assessements as a means of producing change. However two assessments that might be used are (Basic Needs Self Assessment), Contextual Needs Assessment)

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Wubbolding introduced the acronym

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WDEP

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WDEP stands for

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Wants, Direction and Doing, Evaluation, Planning

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Wants

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exploring wants, needs, and perceptions

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Directions and Doing

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The client's total behavior is explored, especially the doing aspect.

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Evaluation

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Addressing whether the client's behavior is getting his/her wants and needs met in the most effective ways possible. This when the concept of choice becomes importants.

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Planning

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plans are made to improve the behavior and commitment is made to follow the plan. (Confortation)

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Therapeutic relationship

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Counselors must show that theyy care about the client by being open, honest, warm, friendly, and personal so that clients can meet the need for belonging.

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This is an integral part of reality therapy in that they explore total behavior evaluate what people are doing, and help to make specific plans.

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Confrontation

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it should be used in a manner that leads clients to take responsibilty for their behaviors.

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Paradoxical techinques

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these techniques are often used to demonstrate the role of choice in one's behavior.

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Paradoxical reframing

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helps to use humor or other techniques to change the way of thinking.

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Paradoxical prescriptions

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direct clientss to choose a symptom; If a person is choosing to anxietize, he can can be told to anxietize, but only at certain times.

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Therapists act as teachers

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They must be able to to new skills that in reality, such as assertiveness training, conflict resolution, and anger management.

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Limitations of Reality Therapy A

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Reality therapy does not give much emphasis on the role of the unconscious, the power of the past and effects of childhood experiences, the role of dreams, and the role of transference.

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Limitations of Reality Therapy B

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it can be insesitive to multicultural issues. It largely ignores the enironmental factors like racism, discrimination, and ethnocentrism that many multicultural clients have to deal with on a daily basis.

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Limitations of Reality Therapy C

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Many multicultural clients are also reluctant to say what they need. Their culture doesn't accept assertiveness, and may also emphasize the needs of the group before the needs of the individual

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Limitations of Reality Therapy D

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a very directive therapy with the counselor as the expert and in the teaching role.

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Reality therapy minimizes

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physiological explanation for severe mental illness. It implies that mentally ill people "choose" their hallucinations and delusions.

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