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In Reality Therapy, Dr. Robert E. Wubbolding demonstrates this choice-centered approach. Reality therapy is based on choice theory, which states that people choose their behaviors to do one of two things: fulfill a need or communicate with the surrounding world. Reality therapy first assesses what the clients' needs are and what they want from therapy. The therapist conducts an assessment to help clients determine how effective their behaviors have been in fulfilling their needs and then works with clients to determine a plan for more effective action. In this session, Dr. Wubbolding works with a man in his 40s who has relationship difficulties because of his communication style. Dr. Wubbolding helps the client to look at his relationship differently and to try to see things from his girlfriend's point of view. Read a review of this title from the PsycCRITIQUES database (PDF: 70KB)
Choice theory provides the basis for reality therapy. It stresses that human behavior originates from five current sources of motivation or five human needs: Self-preservation, belonging, power or inner control, freedom or independence, and fun or enjoyment. Most behaviors are chosen and serve two purposes: to impact the environment around us in order to satisfy the five needs and send a message to or communicate with the surrounding world.
Robert E. Wubbolding, EdD, is director of the Center for Reality Therapy and director of training for the William Glasser Institute, and has taught reality therapy in North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The author of 10 books on reality therapy, he has expanded and extended this practical method by formulating it as the WDEP (Wants, Doing, Evaluation, and Planning) system and adapting it to cross-cultural therapy. Among his books is the most comprehensive book on reality therapy, Reality Therapy for the 21st Century (2000), in which he extends the procedures, describes their use in cross-cultural counseling, and summarizes research from around the world.
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