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Week 7 - Reality Therapy Flashcards

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What was the underlying principle to the practice of reality therapy?

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Control therapy

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What are the key concepts of reality therapy?

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-The 10 axioms of choice theory
-Needs and wants
-Internal control
-Choice
-Quality world
-Total behavior

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What are the therapeutic techniques?

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-Tonics of the helping relationship
-Toxins of the helping relationship

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What happens during the counseling process?

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-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

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What are the five genetically based needs?

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-survival
-love and belonging
-power
-freedom
-fun

He believed these to be fixed at birth and do not change

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The way individuals learn to meet their unique BLANK is said to reflect our personality.

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Need-strength profile

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What are our quality worlds?

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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.

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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.

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Total behavior

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We can only choose our actions and thoughts, which are jointly called BLANK, and that our feelings and our physiology result from these choices.

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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.

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What kinds of control language is there?

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-Internal: accepting, respectful, supportive of others and reflects a person who is clear about the choices that will best meet their needs.
-External: blaming, critical, and threatening of others and reflects a person who has not learned how to make choices that best meet their needs.

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True or False: In reality therapy, it’s important to use langauge that clearly shows that a person is responsible for their state in life, which conflicts with the contemporary view held by many that suggests mental disorders are the result of some intrinsic, organically based problems or that individuals are determined by such things as early childhood experiences.

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True

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Glasser believed that needs can only be satisfied in the BLANK, so the approach is focused mostly on the present.

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Here and now.

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BLANK is the philosophical basis of how we come to understand the person, while BLANK is how the counselor applies their skills to impact the client based on that philosophical understanding.

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Choice theory; reality therapy

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What are the 10 axioms of choice?

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  1. The only person whose behavior you can control is your own.
  2. All we can give or get from other people is information.
  3. All long-lasting psychological problems are relationship problems.
  4. The problem relationship is always part of our present lives.
  5. What happened in the past that was painful as a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now: improve an important, present relationship.
  6. We are driven by five genetic needs
  7. We can satisfy these needs only by satisfying a picture or pictures in our Quality Worlds.
  8. All we can do from birth to death is behave. All behavior is Total Behavior and is made up of four inseparable. components: acting, thinking, feeling, and physiology.
  9. All Total Behavior is designed by verbs, usually infinitives and gerunds and named by the component that is most recognizable.
  10. All Total Behavior is chosen, but we have direct control over only the acting and thinking components..
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Individuals wants are unique and are based on the BLANK as reflected in one’s quality world.

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Need-strength profile

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The kinds of choices we make to meet our needs defines our BLANK.

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Personality

17
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One major focus of reality therapy is to help clients examine how they are fulfilling their relationship needs because?

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Of the need for love and belonging

18
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Glasser suggests that the enemy of freedom is BLANK

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the attempt to control others and that true freedom follows the golden rule

19
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Lack of fun is a symbol of a relationship’s what?

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Souring

20
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From the moment we are born, choice theory asserts that how we feel reflects the behaviors we choose in our attempts to BLANK?

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Satisfy our needs. Unfortunately, many erroneously believe that external factors determine behaviors and are responsible for how one feels.

21
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People who live by an external control philosophy tend to do what?

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Blame, criticize, bribe, complain, punish, torture, passive aggressive etc. in an attempt to change the external factors they believe cuase tehir unhappiness.

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Those who live with a sense of internal control tend to do what?

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Thoughtfully and actively choose their behaviors and consider how their choices will affect their fulfillment of their needs and how their actions will affect others?

23
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What is one of the goal’s of choice theory?

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Learning to identify the language of external control and changing one’s langauge to reflect internal control and choice.

24
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To encourage internal control behaviors and healthy relationships, Glasser suggest that clients work on exhibiting what?

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Seven caring habits while avoiding the seven deadly habits

Supporting, encouraging, listening, accepting, trusting, respecting, negotiating differences

25
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Quality world, which are pictures that reflect what is important to us and what we most desire or want, includes what?

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  1. The people we most want to be with
  2. The things we most want to own or experience
  3. The ideas of systems of belief that govern much of our behavior
26
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When counselors who use reality therapy use the world behavior they are almost referring to what they call what?

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Total behavior, which is composed of four elements: acting, thinking, feeling and physiology

Choice theory says we can only choose who we act and think (doing) with feelings and physiological responses being viewed as a product to how one acts and thinks.

Car with front wheels to describe this process (thinking and acting), back wheels (feeling and physiology)

27
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Our acting and thinking is based on our BLANK, which are in turn based on our BLANK.

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Wants; need-strength profile (basic needs)

28
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When using the WDEP system, it’s important to embrace and practice the BLANK?

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The tonics of the helping relationship which are those attitudes and techniques that will facilitate a strong therapeutic relationship, while avoiding the toxins of the helping relationship, which are those attitudes that are destructive to the relationship.

29
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Which three elements are particularly important when using reality therpay in organizations?

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Practice lead management, discuss quality, and increase choices.

30
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Discuss problems in the BLANK tense and solutions in the BLANK tense

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Past; present or future.

Reality therapists tend to focus on the present and the future with an emphasis on changing behaviors that are preventing the client from getting what they want and need.

31
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What are the toxins of the helping relationship?

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ABCDEFGH
Avoid arguing, attacking or accusing
-Don’t boss manage, blame, or belittle
-Don’t criticize, coerce, or condemn
-Don’t demean or demand
-Don’t encourage excuses
-Don’t instill fear or find fault
-Don’t give up easily or take for granted
-Don’t hold gruddes.

32
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What are the 3 levels of planning?

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  1. Those initiated solely by the client
  2. Those developed with the counselor
  3. Those developed by the counselor

Those initiated solely by the client are most effective.

33
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What are the 2 types of plans?

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Two types of plans: linear and paradoxical

34
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What acronym is used to examine whether a plan is workable?

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AMI2C3: simple, attainable, measurable, immediate, involved, consistent, controlled, committed

35
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How long is reality therapy?

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Short-term, also positive and respectful

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