REALITY THERAPY

Question 1

Therapeutic Goals

Answer 1

1. To help clients get connected or reconnected with the people they have chosen to put in their quality world
2. To help clients learn better (responsible and satisfying) ways of fulfilling their needs
3. To work and connect with involuntary clients who may
   actively resist the therapist and therapeutic process

Question 2

Characteristics of Therapy

Answer 2

1. Emphasize choice and responsibility
2. Reject transference
3. Keep the therapy in the present
4. Avoid focusing on symptoms
5. Challenge traditional views of mental illness

Question 3

The Therapeutic Process

Answer 3

Assessment
Reality Therapy

Question 4

● Takes place throughout the therapeutic process
● It is a means of producing change in client behavior

Answer 4

Assessment

Question 5

Reality Therapy…
As A Cycle (2 Major Components)

Answer 5

(1) creating the counseling environment
(2) implementing specific procedures that lead to changes in behavior

Question 6

emphasizes an understanding and
supportive relationship or therapeutic alliance

Answer 6

Reality therapy

Question 7

Therapist’s Function and Role

Answer 7

● Function: become an advocate–someone who is on
the client’s side
● Role: teach clients how to engage in self-evaluation

Question 8

Can be used to help clients explore wants, possiblenthings they can do, opportunities for self-evaluation,
and design plans for improvement

Answer 8

The “WDEP” System

Question 9

Reality Therapy Strategies

Answer 9

Questioning
Being Positive
Metaphors
Humor
Confrontation
Paradoxical Techniques

Question 10

Areas of Application

Answer 10

Applicable to counseling, social work, education,
crisis intervention, corrections and rehabilitation,
institutional management, and community dev’t

Question 11

attending to and using the client’s
language in communicating understanding to a client

Answer 11

Metaphors

Question 12

can sometimes be met to a small degree; creates a greater sense of friendly involvement and
sense of belongingness

Answer 12

humor

Question 13

can be in the form of positively and
constructively not accepting client’s excuses; confronting excuses made by client

Answer 13

Confrontation

Question 14

contradictory instructions
to the client; relevant when client is resistant to carrying out plans

Answer 14

Paradoxical Techniques

Question 15

changing how one sees a topic;
see previously undesirable behavior as desirable

Answer 15

Reframing

Question 15

choosing a symptom to “control”

Answer 15

Paradoxical Prescriptions