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What is Reality Therapy?

Reality therapy is an approach to psychotherapy and counseling which focuses on the here-and-now and how we can plan for a better future, instead of concentrating at length on the past. The past can be more damaging to go over for some than to simply address the needs of the present and the future.

Reality therapy was developed by the psychiatrist Dr. William Glasser in 1965. It is considered a cognitive behavioural approach to treatment. More than a counseling technique, reality therapy is also a problem solving method that works well with people who are experiencing problems they need help with solving, as well as those who are having problems and appear to not want any assistance.

It takes into account the concept of total behaviour, keeping a focus on what clients can do directly to change things now through their thought patterns and actions. It allows them to discover what it is they really want, spending less time on what they cannot do. It then helps them to make specific, workable plans and can be followed through by evaluating progress to see if the client is nearer, or further away from, the goal.

Counselling with Reality Therapy provides a jargon-free and practical explanation of a theory and method of counselling that can be used in any therapeutic relationship. It also contains ideas which can be used by parents, spouses, carers, supervisors, teachers and anyone wishing for more satisfying relationships....

Counselling with Reality Therapy

By Robert Wubbolding & John Brickell

Reality therapy is a cognitive behavioural therapy method that continues to grow in popularity as a therapeutic approach owing to its wide applicability, its highly practical and interactive methodology, and its actual track record in counselling and helping people.Counselling with Reality Therapy

This resource forms an easy-to-use introduction for anyone thinking of using this approach, discussing the concepts behind reality therapy, choice theory, the counselling environment, procedures and special applications.

Reality therapy has a wide application and the book explains how this can be achieved, it includes areas such as developing responsibility, motivation, self-esteem, improving relationships, dealing with discipline, problems and addictions;

It provides you with details of how this technique can be used in schools, by the probation service, in prisons, at work, within clinics and the health service and in many other areas where counselling is necessary.

Contents

History of reality therapy; Choice theory: the psychology underlying reality therapy; Creating the counselling relationship; The procedures that lead to change: the 'WDEP system'; Reality therapy and group counselling; Application to schools; Relationship counselling; Reality therapy and addictions treatment; Paradoxical techniques.

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