Chapter 11 Reality Therapy Flashcards
WDEP system
The key procedures applied to the practice of reality therapy groups. The strategies help clients identify their wants, determine the direction their behavior is taking them, make self-evaluations, and design plans for change.
responsibility
Satisfying one’s needs in ways that do not interfere with others’ fulfilling their needs.
commitment
The act of sticking to a realistic plan aimed at change.
Choice theory
the basis for Reality therapy. The view that humans are internally motivated and behave to control the world around them according to some purpose within them. We are basically self-determining and create our own destiny.
Reality therapy
Based on choice theory, this approach provides a way of implementing therapeutic procedures for helping individuals take more effective control of their lives.
quality world
The perceptions and images we have of how we can fulfill our basic psychological needs; another phrase for picture album.
picture album
An image of our specific wants as well as precise ways to satisfy these wants.
Total behavior
The integrated components of doing, thinking, feeling, and physiology. Choice theory assumes that all elements of behavior are interrelated.
“paining” behaviors
Choosing misery by developing symptoms (such as headaching, depressing, and anxietying) because these seem like the best behaviors available at the time.
