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Choice/Reality Theory Flashcards

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We store information inside our minds and build a file of wants, called our quality world. T or F (Choice/Reality Theory)

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True, the world we would like to live if we could.

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Reality therapy is based on choice theory. T or F (Choice/Reality Theory)

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True

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A bad way to change behavior is for us to be self-critical. T or F (Choice/Reality Theory)

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True

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It is not important to explore the past as a way to change current behavior. T or F (Choice/Reality Theory)

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True

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One of the therapist’s functions is not to make judgments about clients’ present behavior. T or F (Choice/Reality Theory)

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True

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The focus of reality therapy is not on attitudes and feelings but instead on the client assuming the responsibility in the present. T or F (Choice/Reality Theory)

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True

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A key strength of reality therapy is that it provides clients with tools to make the changes they desire. T or F (Choice/Reality Theory)

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True

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Reality therapy is grounded on some existential concepts. T or F (Choice/Reality Theory)

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True

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The basic human needs serve to focus treatment planning and setting both short- and long-term goals. T or F (Choice/Reality Theory)

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True

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Appropriate punishment is not an effective way to change behavior. T or F (Choice/Reality Theory)

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True

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When working with clients from certain ethnic groups reality therapy exposes shortcomings: (Choice/Reality Theory)

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a) It may not take fully into account some very real environmental forces that operate against them in their everyday lives. b) Some reality therapists may make the mistake of too quickly or too forcefully stressing the ability of their clients to take charge of their lives. c) Some clients are very reluctant to directly verbally express what they need.

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According to this approach, insight (Choice/Reality Theory)

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is not sufficient for producing behavior change on its own.

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Choice theory explains the view of human nature as we are born with five genetically encoded needs that drive us all our lives. The needs are (Choice/Reality Theory)

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1) love and belonging 2) survival, or self-preservation, 3) fun or enjoyment. 4) power, or inner control. 5) freedom, or independence. Each of us has all five needs, but they vary in strength.

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Key concepts of reality therapy? (Choice/Reality Theory)

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a) avoid focusing on symptoms, b) reject transference c) keep the therapy the present

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What is true of reality therapy? (Choice/Reality Theory)

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a) It is based on the premise that acting and thinking are chosen behaviors. b) Clients must make commitments. c) Therapists do not accept excuses or blaming.

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The goals of reality therapy: (Choice/Reality Theory)

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It is to help clients learn better ways of fulfilling all of their needs.

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In reality therapy, our quality world is likened to: (Choice/Reality Theory)

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A picture album.

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Which statements are true of reality therapy? (Choice/Reality Theory)

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a) Planning is essential. b) It is based on a personal relationship. c) The focus is on the client’s strengths.

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Reality therapy was designed originally for working with (Choice/Reality Theory)

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youth offenders in detention facilities.

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Which of the following is a technique used by a reality therapist? (Choice/Reality Theory)

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the WDEP System can be used to help clients explore their wants, possible things they can do, opportunities for self-evaluation, and design plans for improvement

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Which statement is true as it applies to choice theory? (Choice/Reality Theory)

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We are motivated completely by internal forces, and our behavior is our best attempt to get what we want.

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An axiom of choice theory is that (Choice/Reality Theory)

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although the past may have contributed to a current problem the past is never the problem. & the only person you can control is yourself.

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Sometimes it seems as though people actually choose to be miserable (depressed). From Glasser’s perspective, what implies passivity and lack of personal responsibility? (Choice/Reality Theory)

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a) Having a headache (head aching themselves) b) Being depressed (depressing themselves) c) Being angry (angering themselves) d) being anxious (anxieting themselves) . The therapist explains that people do not choose pain and suffering directly; rather, it is an unchosen part of their total behavior. The behavior of the person is the best effort, ineffective as it is, to satisfy needs.

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All of the following are procedures in reality therapy that are said to lead to change (Choice/Reality Theory)

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a) the client’s evaluating of his or her own behavior. b) focusing on current behavior. c) exploring wants, needs, and perceptions.

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Founder (Choice/Reality Theory)

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William Glasser

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Key figure besides founder (Choice/Reality Theory)

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Robert Wubbolding (expanded through conceptualization of WDEP system)

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Choice theory/reality therapy are under the cognitive behavioral umbrella T or F (Choice/Reality Theory)

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True, because they all emphasize translating insights into behavioral action

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What is the underlying problem for clients? (Choice/Reality Theory)

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they are either involved in a present unsatisfying relationship or lack what could even be called a relationship. The more clients are able to connect with people, the greater chance they have to experience happiness. Unhappiness results from the way they are choosing to behave.

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Beliefs about diagnosis? (Choice/Reality Theory)

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clients should not be labeled with a diagnosis except when it is necessary for insurance purposes. Labeling these ineffective behaviors as mental illness is inaccurate.

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Difference between choice theory and reality therapy

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choice theory is the theoretical basis for reality therapy; it explains why and how we function. reality therapy provides a delivery system for helping individuals take more effective control of their lives. Reality therapists teach clients choice theory, sometimes subtly and indirectly, so clients can identify unmet needs and try to satisfy them. If choice theory is the highway, reality therapy is the vehicle delivering the product

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What is the primary need? (Choice/Reality Theory)

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Love and belonging

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For therapy to have a chance of success, a therapist must be the kind of person (Choice/Reality Theory)

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that clients would consider putting in their quality world. Getting into the clients’ quality world is the art of therapy. It is from this relationship with the therapist that clients begin to learn how to get close to the people they need.

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What is total behavior?(Choice/Reality Theory)

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teaches that all behavior is made up of four inseparable but distinct components—acting, thinking, feeling, and physiology—that necessarily accompany all of our actions, thoughts, and feelings.

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