Reality Therapy

Question 0

• We do not live in any real world. Individuals may have perceptions of reality, but they cannot know reality itself.
• We all have our own perceptions of reality.

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Structure of the Person

Question 1

• We are all born with the capacity to choose and have needs
• “Choice” in Reality Therapy means that behavior is generated from within the person for the purpose of need satisfaction.

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Structure of the Personality

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• Infants choose behavior they know for survivals-crying when needs diaper change, food, etc.
• They become creative in choosing how to ask for what they want through the use of this wondering tool “language”

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Structure of the Person

Question 3

• Experience the external world
• Born with the ability to do this as:
• Pleasurable
• Painful
• Neutral

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Structure of the Personality

Question 4

*What makes us go through life-how we get what we need, how we get our needs met!

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Function of the Personality

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*Eating,Drinking, Seeking shelter, Resisting illness, Reproduction, Waste management

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Survival

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• Need to share
• Love
• Cooperate
• Met by friends, family, pets, or collections

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Belongings

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• To be better than others
• Can conflict with our need to belong
• Marriage-need for power conflicts with the need to be loved
• Want to be in control

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Power

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• How we wish to live life
• How we wish to express ourselves
• With whom we wish to associate
• What we want to read and write
• How we worship or not

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Freedom

Question 9

• Not as vital as the first 4
• laughing
• joking
• sports
• reading

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Fun

Question 10

• Organized-with which we are familiar

* Behavioral system-that we are constantly reorganizing

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Behavior

Question 11

• Doing
• Thinking
• Feelings
• Physiology

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Total Behavior

Question 12

• Active behavior (walking, talking, or moving)

* May be voluntary

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Doing

Question 13

• Both voluntary and involuntary thoughts
• Daydreams
• Nightmares
• Night Dreams

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Thinking

Question 14

• Happy or sad
• Angry or content
• Pleasure or pain

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Feeling

Question 15

• Voluntary and involuntary mechanisms
• Sweating
• Urinating

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Physiology

Question 16

• Argued that this is a choice- we act the way that we see others, but this is a choiceful decision.
• We choose the way we interact with others.
• NOT the source of human behavior

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Role of the Environment

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• People can choose the good or the apparent good

* It takes time to practice this behavior of correct choices (experiences)

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Role of the Environment

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*Choosing to depress or anxietize, individuals can keep their anger under control

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Unhealthy Functioning Reason 1

Question 19

• Depress or anxietize to get others to help them

* Helping without begging

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Unhealthy Functioning Reason 2

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• Unwilling to be more effective

* Difficult to choose to be better

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Unhealthy Functioning Reason 3

Question 21

• Choosing to depress or anxietize can give power over others
• Others need to comfort the person, encourage

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Unhealthy Functioning Reason 4

Question 22

*Choosing to be Happy

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Healthy Functioning

Question 23

*Four basic steps:
Wants
Doing
Evaluation
Planning

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How Change Occurs

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* Making plans to do better * Commit to plans * Verbal or written contracts

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How Change Occurs

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* Therapist is warm * Kind * Caring * Optimistic * Establishment of that environment shows helpfulness

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Conditions Necessary for Change

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* Word Hard * Must be willing to make choices * Stick to choices * Open to new ideas

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Role of the Client

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* Clients must be cognitive, higher functioning, willing to work * Not good with lower functioning clients * Not good with personal growth -insight

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Capacity for Change

Question 28

* Didnt want to choose to change | * Change is hard work

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Source of Resistance

Question 29

* No excuses for failure to follow through * No criticism, arguing with, or punishing client * Does not give up on the client

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Role of the Counselor

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* Help meet their physiological needs for belonging, power, freedom, and fun in responsible and satisfying ways * More severe the symptom the more the client is unable to meet needs

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Goals of Counseling

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* Educational approach | * Unconscious process/dreams are not in Reality Therapy

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Goals of Counseling

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* Friendly * Relationship-based * Not patronizing * Not telling others what to do; let them come up with own ideas

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Relationship with the Client

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* Not a technique focused therapy * Questioning * Being Positive * Metaphors * Humor * Confrontation * Paradoxical Techniques

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Specific Techniques