Exam 11: Choice Theoryreality Therapy

Glasser contends that is a way that both therapist and client avoid being who they are and owning what they are doing right now.

Reality therapists refuse to accept excuses.

Reality therapy tends to be a long-term approach.

provides a delivery system for helping individuals take more effective control of their lives.

Glasser believes the need to love and to belong are secondary needs.

Robert Wubbolding stresses the importance of a supportive and challenging therapeutic environment.

A reality therapist will primarily focus on:

Reality therapy is popular in all of the following areas, except:

teaches that all behaviour is made up of four inseparable but distinct components - acting, thinking, feeling, and physiology.

It is essential for the therapist to establish a satisfying relationship with clients as a prerequisite for effective therapy. Once this relationship is developed, the skill of the therapist as listener and teacher assumes a central role.