Glasser's Reality Therapy

These basic needs “serve as sources of all behavior.” Therefore, reality therapist often reminds the client to be responsible of his/her own behavior. The goal of the reality therapy is to help the client to evaluate their current behaviors, and to help them determine if their behaviors are able to meet their needs. If the behaviors are not effective, the reality therapist will formulate a plan of action for changing behaviors and obtain needs. Some of the steps employed by reality therapy are: 1) analyze the situation and indentify unmet need, 2) identify aspects if their problems that can be changed, 3) make plan for change, and 4) follow through on

The long-term goal of any counselling session is to aid the client in their overcoming and defeat of obstacles they may face through the facilitation of psychological tools and theories. The evolution of psychology over the last 100 years has seen numerous theories put forth for application to therapy in the clinical setting. Two widely used and well-founded methods include Behaviour Therapy and Person Centered Therapy. The dynamics of Behaviour Therapy were first discovered by the famous researcher and psychologist B.F Skinner, through his findings on operant conditioning (Lindsley; Skinner & Soloman, 1953). The behaviour modification component of Behaviour Therapy utilises techniques founded in Skinner’s discovery of operant

Some people come into therapy with the misconception that the therapist is overly responsible for figuring out what is wrong with them and then can change it. The problem with this misconception is that it makes the therapist the impetus for change; clients take on the role of passive recipient, waiting to be cured. It puts unrealistic expectations on the therapist. As a new therapist, this is something I will have to watch out for myself. I will need to watch for the client having unrealistic expectations that I will be able to fix them all by myself. I will also have to watch that I don’t put unrealistic expectations on myself; needing to be the expert that has all the answers and amazing insights and solutions for the client’s problems.

Affect refers to a client’s emotion whereas cognitive content refers to the process of cognition or understanding. This is the primary content that is utilized when working with a client. At times the client may express emotion without much cognition and at other times they may express cognition without emotion (Cormier, 2014). The therapist can summarize what the client is saying and add the emotion to a cognitive statement and wait for feedback to assure that the emotion is understood correctly (Cormier, 2014).

that we are born with five basic human needs that drive us all our lives: survival, love and

The participant is a 49 year old African American male who began using substances at the age of 13. He was diagnosed with severe alcohol, cocaine, and opioid use. The participant has been incarcerated over the past 32 years. He was recently paroled after completing eight years of a sixteen year sentence in the Illinois Department of Corrections for burglary and theft. The participant is on medications to treat HIV/AIDS and has been diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder. He was referred to Healthcare Alternative Systems residential program through TASC as a condition of his probation.

Glasser’s reality therapy is a combination of both existential and behavioral concepts. Glasser “strongly opposes behaviorism” because it focused on outside control (Tan, 2011, p.183). An essential concept of reality therapy is coming to an understanding that we cannot control our external world but we can control our internal world. For example, the client experiences a traumatic event that leaves them anxious and overwhelmed. They may try to control the external things around them in attempt to return to normal. In result they are neglecting their internal aspect. A reality therapist will help the client understand that they may not be able to control for example their schedule or the people around them. The therapist will help see that they

INTRODUCTION Kadushin (1969) first suggested that the general public’s perceptions of psychotherapy were based on popular culture such as movies and television. Since that time, various authors have agreed with this general position. For example, Hyler (1988) argues that it is difficult to ignore the potential influence films have on the public’s views about therapists when he states: It is important for [psychotherapists] to be aware of how their profession is depicted in films, since this is often how our patients, and their families, form their image of us. In many instances awareness of these images may help us understand the resistance of patients and/or their families to medication or other types of therapy, or their unreal expectation,

A core fundamental principle of Glasser’s reality therapy is the basic human needs: survival, love/belonging, power, freedom, and fun. According to his theory all of our behaviors and actions are directed by our basic needs. Survival is our one biological basic need. This need is satisfied by “eating, exercising, and having adequate shelter” which are all actions that allow humans to survive (Tan, 2011, p.184). This basic need can be seen across all cultures and eras across the world. We all strive to survive because it is encoded deeply inside us. Even as young children we seek out others that benefit our need for survival. When a child is hungry they know that their parents will feed them. The child then goes to their parents which is the

Behavior therapy was developed by many such as B.F. Skinner, Albert Bandura, and Arnold Lazarus. This theory emphasizes that humans are not products of their sociocultural but relatively products and producers of their individual background (Corey, 2012). Behavior therapy supports giving autonomy to clients. It inspires clients to grow their public skills, and that way it will help increase their social skills to have a better awareness to dissimilar things. This will open their minds to not delimited or narrow selections. Behavior therapy rises sovereignty in humans by consenting them to discover other choices. This theory have a few main characteristics and expectations such as (1) Behavior therapy is grounded on philosophies of scientific

In a nutshell, EFT involves tapping on specific points on the body with one’s fingertips, in a particular sequence, while simultaneously recalling and verbalising a trauma. Once all the emotion is cleared, we then proceed to incorporate positive affirmations to replace the negative thoughts. If EFT is a tool, there must be a ‘correct’ way of using it, right? Well, yes and no. I like to think of EFT as a Swiss army knife. It’s adaptable, and can be as delicate as a scalpel, or as forceful as a hammer.

William Glasser developed Reality Therapy (RT) out of his dissatisfaction with the progression of psychoanalysis therapy. Glasser believed people had two fundamental needs, to love and to beloved. "Glasser emphasizes that humans have an innate need to control their situations. According to Glasser, this driving need causes individuals to exhibit forceful behaviors' (Good therapy.org) . The core principles of RT are founded in Choice therapy (CT) those core principles are about control and understanding what you can and cannot control, CT teaches that the person only has control over themselves and the information they provide to others. When choosing a therapeutic approach for a client, the counselor should look at the concepts of the approach

Initially, I favored leaning toward Behavioral and Reality Theories (BRT) because they involved a structured process of obtaining client information and client involvement for a therapeutic change in behavior. Furthermore, the benefits of Behavioral and Reality therapy for beginning counselors are establishing a relationship that includes a healthy dialogue that involves the client becoming personally involved in creating a road map for their treatment plan. BRT requires counselors to develop a therapeutic client relationship but it is not critical but acceptable to influence change due to the nature of the theory to cause change. The philosophical bases of BRT is to use instill change

The activity scheduling, specifically reading to his kids, brought about more positive reinforcement and belief challenging. Carlos could read to his kids with a “clear head” and thus proved to himself that he could continue doing activities he used to do without suffering a nervous breakdown or undue stress. Additionally, these activities may even cause him pleasure and further future repetition. By leaving work by 8:00am every morning, which Carlos could do, he found a maladaptive behavior and noted it to the psychologist: “He could do it, but had learned that it was important not get caught up in what he termed a ‘stall mode’ in the morning”. Carlos could further note the “stall mode” occurring in other aspects of behaviors and cognitions and even offered a solution for it. This outcome is allowing Carlos to take a more active role in the therapy and really contribute in the collaborative empiricism with his psychologist. Additionally, this is fueling an adaptive belief that Carlos is a well-functioning individual who can identify and provide solutions for his problems.

On one hand, you have Reality therapists who are very directive, assertive and teaches choices and behaviors that are congruent to the client’s end goals in meeting their five basic needs. In Reality theory the client is very much responsible for their actions, choices, thoughts and behaviors while being guided by the counseling process to meet a goal or need. Although client centered therapy places much responsibility on the client as well, it is more in the form of a trusting bond or belief that the client knows what they need best and can come to this conclusion when the therapist creates a loving encouraging relationship and environment for the process to flourish. The counselor must view the world around them as though they were using