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Reality Therapy Flashcards

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  • We do not live in any real world. Individuals may have perceptions of reality, but they cannot know reality itself.
  • We all have our own perceptions of reality.
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Structure of the Person

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  • We are all born with the capacity to choose and have needs
  • “Choice” in Reality Therapy means that behavior is generated from within the person for the purpose of need satisfaction.
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Structure of the Personality

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  • Infants choose behavior they know for survivals-crying when needs diaper change, food, etc.
  • They become creative in choosing how to ask for what they want through the use of this wondering tool “language”
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Structure of the Person

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  • Experience the external world
  • Born with the ability to do this as:
  • Pleasurable
  • Painful
  • Neutral
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Structure of the Personality

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*What makes us go through life-how we get what we need, how we get our needs met!

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Function of the Personality

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*Eating,Drinking, Seeking shelter, Resisting illness, Reproduction, Waste management

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Survival

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  • Need to share
  • Love
  • Cooperate
  • Met by friends, family, pets, or collections
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Belongings

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  • To be better than others
  • Can conflict with our need to belong
  • Marriage-need for power conflicts with the need to be loved
  • Want to be in control
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Power

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  • How we wish to live life
  • How we wish to express ourselves
  • With whom we wish to associate
  • What we want to read and write
  • How we worship or not
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Freedom

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  • Not as vital as the first 4
  • laughing
  • joking
  • sports
  • reading
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Fun

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  • Organized-with which we are familiar

* Behavioral system-that we are constantly reorganizing

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Behavior

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  • Doing
  • Thinking
  • Feelings
  • Physiology
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Total Behavior

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  • Active behavior (walking, talking, or moving)

* May be voluntary

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Doing

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  • Both voluntary and involuntary thoughts
  • Daydreams
  • Nightmares
  • Night Dreams
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Thinking

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  • Happy or sad
  • Angry or content
  • Pleasure or pain
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Feeling

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  • Voluntary and involuntary mechanisms
  • Sweating
  • Urinating
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Physiology

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  • Argued that this is a choice- we act the way that we see others, but this is a choiceful decision.
  • We choose the way we interact with others.
  • NOT the source of human behavior
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Role of the Environment

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  • People can choose the good or the apparent good

* It takes time to practice this behavior of correct choices (experiences)

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Role of the Environment

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*Choosing to depress or anxietize, individuals can keep their anger under control

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Unhealthy Functioning Reason 1

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  • Depress or anxietize to get others to help them

* Helping without begging

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Unhealthy Functioning Reason 2

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  • Unwilling to be more effective

* Difficult to choose to be better

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Unhealthy Functioning Reason 3

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  • Choosing to depress or anxietize can give power over others
  • Others need to comfort the person, encourage
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Unhealthy Functioning Reason 4

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*Choosing to be Happy

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Healthy Functioning

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*Four basic steps:
Wants
Doing
Evaluation
Planning
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How Change Occurs

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  • Making plans to do better
  • Commit to plans
  • Verbal or written contracts
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How Change Occurs

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  • Therapist is warm
  • Kind
  • Caring
  • Optimistic
  • Establishment of that environment shows helpfulness
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Conditions Necessary for Change

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  • Word Hard
  • Must be willing to make choices
  • Stick to choices
  • Open to new ideas
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Role of the Client

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  • Clients must be cognitive, higher functioning, willing to work
  • Not good with lower functioning clients
  • Not good with personal growth -insight
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Capacity for Change

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  • Didnt want to choose to change

* Change is hard work

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Source of Resistance

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  • No excuses for failure to follow through
  • No criticism, arguing with, or punishing client
  • Does not give up on the client
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Role of the Counselor

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  • Help meet their physiological needs for belonging, power, freedom, and fun in responsible and satisfying ways
  • More severe the symptom the more the client is unable to meet needs
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Goals of Counseling

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  • Educational approach

* Unconscious process/dreams are not in Reality Therapy

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Goals of Counseling

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  • Friendly
  • Relationship-based
  • Not patronizing
  • Not telling others what to do; let them come up with own ideas
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Relationship with the Client

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  • Not a technique focused therapy
  • Questioning
  • Being Positive
  • Metaphors
  • Humor
  • Confrontation
  • Paradoxical Techniques
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Specific Techniques

Counseling Theories 2014 (6 decks)

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