Philosophy
He is the founder of Reality Therapy
Who is William Glassner?
The most important basic need
What is love and belonging?
The relative strengths of a person’s needs form the foundation for this
What is “personality”?
This is performing the symptom
What is doing the unexpected?
Figuring out what relationships are problematic for the client is RT’s version of this
What is assessment?
Reality theory is especially useful in working with this population
What are kids and schools?
A set of mental images of need-fulfilling things or people
What is the quality world?
The failure to satisfy one’s needs is the source of this
What is dysfunction?
The goal of these is to identify current needs and behavior
What are questions?
The counselor-client dynamic is most similar to this kind of relationship
What is a doctor-patient relationship?
Glasnner believed this is what drives human motivation
What is maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain?
Acting, thinking, feeling, and physiology comprise this RT construct
What is total behavior?
Glassner said the roots of unhappiness are found in these
What are early childhood experiences?
This paradoxical approach helps the client find a different perspective
What is reframing?
To achieve this element needed in therapy, the RT counselor is genuine, empathic, and supportive
What is the quality relationship?
According to Glassner they are survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun
What are the 5 basic needs?
They are criticizing, blaming, complaining, nagging, threatening, punishing and bribing
What are the seven deadly habits of external control psychology?
Glasser stated that healthy people are happy because they have satisfying….
What are personal relationships?
Glasser said these were the first and second most common forms of positive addiction
What are running and meditation?
They are making better choices, taking responsibility for those choices, changing feelings, and establishing satisfying relationships
What are goals?
Reality therapy is considered to be this type of theory
What is social constructivism?
These are described as the specific people or things that individuals identify as need-satisfying
What are wants?
The typical diagnosis in Reality Therapy
What is an unhappy person?
These result in a temporary loss of freedom or a privilege for the client
What are consequences?
Wubbolding presented this acronym to describe the process of reality therapy
What is WDEP? (wants, direction & doing, self-evaluate, and plans)