Founding History
While originally intended for psychiatrists, this group saw the benefits of reality therapy in their work with young scholars.
Educators
(also teachers, counselors, correctional workers, social workers, administrators)
Instead of focusing on symptoms, reality therapy says people are this for their decisions.
responsible, responsibility
Clients control their lives by creating this, a guide to changing their lives.
Plan, planning, action plan
Due to its emphasis on interpersonal relationships & feedback, reality therapy is well-suited to this type of counseling.
Group Counseling
By providing clients with tools, these are specifically identified and become the targets for change.
Problems
Robert E. Wubbolding is now the director for this in his home-city of Cincinnati.
Center for Reality Therapy
People are the most important component of this, each individual’s “personal Shangri-la.”
Quality World
Cornerstone of reality therapy that requires reflection, questioning, and guidance.
Evaluation (self-evaluation)
Two major components--creating a counseling environment & implementing procedures to spark change--characterize this
Cycle of Counseling
One contribution Corey identifies the time length of Reality Therapy, since “each session may be the last.”
Short-term, Urgent
Although he began his career as a chemical engineer, he later became the founder who has an institute in California named after him.
William Glasser
Still president of said institute
Presumes we are born with five genetically encoded needs that vary in strength but drive all humans.
Choice Theory
He created this system to describe key steps in using reality therapy, probably from his years leading reality therapy training sessions.
Wubbolding, Robert E.
Therapists should try to instill this into their clients to motivate them to create change.
Hope
Because Reality Therapy places control in the client’s hands, practitioners cannot assume they are this, unlike their Psychoanalytic colleagues.
Experts
Title of a groundbreaking book, published in 1965, which changed the name from “reality psychiatry”.
Reality Therapy
Four distinct components--acting, thinking, feeling, & physiology--accompany all actions, thoughts, and feelings.
Total Behavior
These create the quality world of the client and drive their behaviors.
Wants (exploring wants, needs, & perceptions)
In order to create this foundation for effective practice, therapists should avoid arguments, accusation, & coercion.
therapeutic relationship
Innate and uncontrollable factors that operate against individuals and are unaccounted for by the choice-centered nature of Reality Therapy.
Social Injustices
Introduced by William Powers in the mid-1980s, the original name for the reality therapy’s theoretical basis
Control Therapy
Term used to describe the inner “snapshots” of our wants and ways to satisfy them.
Picture Album (also known as quality world)
Instead of feelings, reality therapists encourage changing this as an immediate step to remedy problems.
Doing (also thinking)
What Corey refers to as “a primary goal of contemporary reality therapy.”
Connection/Reconnection
To show the application of Reality Therapy to non-Western cultures, Robert E. Wubbolding adapted the cycle of counseling to this country’s clients.
Japan