Week 7 - Reality Therapy Flashcards
What was the underlying principle to the practice of reality therapy?
Control therapy
What are the key concepts of reality therapy?
-The 10 axioms of choice theory
-Needs and wants
-Internal control
-Choice
-Quality world
-Total behavior
-The relationships between key concepts of choice theory
What are the therapeutic techniques?
-Tonics of the helping relationship
-Toxins of the helping relationship
What happens during the counseling process?
-Discovering wants
-Analyzing the direction in which the client is moving and what the client is doing to get there
-Self-evaluation techniques
-Make specific, workable plans
What are the five genetically based needs?
-survival
-love and belonging
-power
-freedom
-fun
He believed these to be fixed at birth and do not change
The way individuals learn to meet their unique BLANK is said to reflect our personality.
Need-strength profile
What are our quality worlds?
They contain the unique pictures in our minds of the people, things, ideas, and beliefs more important to us in meeting our unique need-strength profiles.
The word quality does not have a moral base, just what we want.
Central to reality therapy is the idea that our BLANK, which includes our actions, our thinking process, our feelings, and our physiological responses, is the result of our efforts to satisfy the pictures in our quality worlds.
Total behavior
We can only choose our actions and thoughts, which are jointly called BLANK, and that our feelings and our physiology result from these choices.
Doing
Feelings and physiology can be motivating in the sense that they can affect the kinds of actions and thoughts made; thus, the four elements are considered inseparable.
