Reality Therapy

Reality Therapy : A New approach to Psychiatry

By William Glasser Ed . 1975

A book review Abstract

This study focuses on the Reality Therapy of William Glasser . It tackles on the concepts and the approach of the therapy . It provides comparison on Reality Therapy , Conventional Therapy , and Transference Therapy . It introduces the principal concepts of the therapy . It points out the advantages and disadvantage of the approach and how effective it is to all people with psychiatric problems .Reality Therapy

One approach in counseling and psychotherapy is Reality Therapy Dr

. William Glasser developed this therapy in the mid 1960 . Choice Therapy , which was originally called as control therapy is the basis of this approach . It became universally applied in education and became one of the well-established therapy approach both internationally and in the U .S

It is a problem solving and counseling therapy approach that focuses on how to create a better future and on the here-and-now concept of the client instead of dwelling on the past . The success of this approach is on the plan for making good choices . The counselor will help the client make an effective plan in to get what he wants . The plan should be framed and be made by the client and not from the counselor 's ideas . The essence of this therapy is that the client makes a plan , which should be attainable and controlled by him . The therapy is composed of four aspects , which are feeling , physiology , thinking and acting . We can choose what we want to think and act , but we have difficulty in directly choosing our feeling and difficulty in controlling our physiology like racing pulse , sweating of palms , etc

Traditional psychoanalytic and counseling often focuses on past events . Choice Therapy and Reality therapy focuses on solutions that are in the present and future which are attainable . People who practice reality therapy may think of the past but they would never dwell on it The approach sees the past as a source of wants , ways of how a person behaves and not as a cause of why a person behaves . It stresses the things to be learned from the pass and move on to satisfy a person 's needs and wants in the future and at present

The purpose of this study is to site the good and the bad points of Reality Therapy . It explains how reality therapy works and if it is applicable to all people with psychiatric problems

Method

Reality therapy establishes a relationship with the client , which is the most important step to take first in any psychotherapy approach The therapist focuses the client on current behaviors instead of experiences . A valued judgment of the current behavior that the clients feel and do will be asked to write . Often times , the problem of the client is a result of a bad relationship with someone . It is a fact that the client can not change anyone else 's behavior . What the therapist will do is to make...