Reality Theory Flashcards
Emphasizes personal responsibility and personal choice
Helps to evaluate and change current behaviors and thought
processes.
REALITY THERAPY
We are all motivated to act in ways that increase pleasure and decrease pain
The theory points thatwe are not born blank slates waiting to be
externally motivated by forces in the world around us.
Is a self Control psychology in order for us to find happiness within our relationships
Explains why and how we function.
CHOICE THEORY
Proponent of Reality Therapy
William Glasser
6 basic needs in Reality Therapy
Psychological
Freedom
Fun
Power
Love and Belonging
Purpose and Meaning
Basic Need:
Food, shelter, safety. This covers the standard needs of food and shelter.
Psychological
Basic Need:
Autonomy and control over own
life.
Freedom
Basic Need:
Pleasure, fulfillment, and joy.
Fun
To succeed, provide, feel competent,and be recognized for
accomplishments.
Power
Basic Need:
Part of a family, network of friends, or community.
Love and Belonging
5 core ideas of reality therapy
Behavior
Control
Responsibility
Action
Present moment
Core Idea:
Central component of reality
therapy
Behavior
2 categories of behavior (core idea)
Organized behavior
Reorganized behavior
Past behaviors that you created to satisfy your needs
Organized behavior
After identifying ineffective behaviors, you’ll work on changing them
Reorganized behavior
Core Idea:
The choice theory suggests that a
person is only controlled by themselves.
Control
Core Idea:
Aims to increase your
accountability of your behavior
Responsibility
Core Idea:
Your actions are part of your overall behavior.
Action
Core Idea:
States that present behavior and actions aren’t influenced by
the past
Present moment
Where we store information inside our mind and build a file of wants
At the core of our life
Quality world
We develop this in our quality world.
This is an inner of specific
wants as well as precise ways to satisfy these wants.
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Teaches that all behavior is made up of four inseparable but distinct
components—acting, thinking, feeling, and physiology
TOTAL BEHAVIOR
4 distinct components of total behaviour
Acting
Thinking
Feeling,
Physiology
When people choose misery by developing a range of paining behaviors, it is because these are the best behaviors they are able
to devise at the time, and these behaviors often get them what they want.
- People do not choose pain and suffering directly; rather, it is an unchosen part of their total behavior.
Paining Behaviour
Those who engage in violent
behaviors, addictions, and other kinds of antisocial behavior.
Involuntary clients
2 major components of cycle of counseling
Creating the counseling environment create a working relationship
Implementing specific procedures that lead to changes in behavior
Exploration of clients’ wants, needs, and perceptions
Clients explore their total behavior and make their own evaluation of how effective they are in getting what they want
Creating the counseling environment create a working relationship
Starts when clients decide to try a new behavior
Involves planning for and committing to change.
Implementing specific procedures that lead to changes in behavior
- Cluster of strategies
- not intended to be implemented in a mechanical fashion;
- based on using specific interventions at the appropriate time
WDEP SYSTEM
WDEP meaning
W: wants, needs, and perceptions
D: direction and doing
E: self-evaluation
P: planning
WDEP:
- defining what clients want from the counseling process and from the world around them
- help clients move from a sense of external control to a sense of internal control
- in this phase of counseling, clients begin to commit to making changes in their behavior
Wants (Exploring Wants, Needs, and Perceptions)
WDEP
- Problems must be solved either in the present or through a plan for the future.
- Therapist’s challenge is to help clients make more need-satisfying choices
- Therapy focuses on gaining awareness of and changing current total behavior.
Direction and Doing
WDEP
- Cornerstone of reality therapy procedures
- Involves the client examining their:
● behavioral direction
● specific actions
● wants
● perception
● new directions
● plans
Self-evaluation
WDEP:
- The plan serves as a starting point, but it can be modified as needed.
- Throughout this phase, the counselor continually urges clients to be willing to accept the consequences of their own
choices and actions. - Plans are also designed in terms of how they are likely to affect others in the client’s life.
- If the plan does not work,a different plan is collaboratively devised.
Planning and Action
Wubbolding uses the acronym ______ to capture the essence of a good plan
SAMIC3
SAMIC3 meaning
Simple
Attainable
Measurable
Immediate
Involved
Controlled by the planner
Committed to
Consistently done
