Choice/Reality Therapy Quiz

Question 1

We store information inside our minds and build a file of wants, called our quality world.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Reality therapy is based on choice theory.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

A good way to change behaviour is for us to be self-critical.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

It is important to explore the past as a way to change current behaviour.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

One of the therapist’s functions is to make judgments about clients’ present behaviour.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

The focus of reality therapy is on attitudes and feelings.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

A key strength of reality therapy is that it provides clients with tools to make the changes they desire.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Reality therapy is grounded on some existential concepts.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

The basic human needs serve to focus treatment planning and setting both short- and long-term goals.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Appropriate punishment is an effective way to change behaviour.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

When working with clients from certain ethnic groups, reality therapy exposes shortcomings. Which of the following is not a shortcoming?

Answer 11

It provides clients with tools to make the changes they desire.

Question 12

According to this approach, insight:

Answer 12

is not sufficient for producing behaviour change on its own.

Question 13

Choice theory explains the view of human nature as we are born with five genetically encoded needs that drive us all our lives. Which of the following is not one?

Answer 13

discipline.

Question 14

Which is not a key concept of reality therapy?

Answer 14

Unconscious motivation.

Question 15

Which of the following is not true of reality therapy?

Answer 15

Working through the transference relationship is essential for therapy to occur.

Question 16

Regarding the goals of reality therapy:

Answer 16

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

Question 17

In reality therapy, our quality world is likened to:

Answer 17

a picture album

Question 18

Which statement is not true of reality therapy?

Answer 18

It focuses on attitude change as a prerequisite for behaviour change.

Question 19

Reality therapy was designed originally for working with:

Answer 19

youth offenders in detention facilities.

Question 20

Which of the following is a technique used by a reality therapist?

Answer 20

The WDEP System.

Question 21

Which of the following statements is true as it applies to choice theory?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

According to Glasser, all of the following are basic psychological needs except for:

Answer 22

competition

Question 23

An axiom of choice theory is that:

Answer 23

although the past may have contributed to a current problem, the past is never the problem.

Question 24

Sometimes it seems as though people actually choose to be miserable (depressed). From Glasser’s perspective, which of the following does not imply passivity and lack of personal responsibility:

Answer 24

being understood

Question 25

All of the following are procedures in reality therapy that are said to lead to change except for:

Answer 25

The therapist’s evaluating of the client’s behaviour.