The function of the reality therapist is to:
Assist clients in dealing with the present.
The core of choice theory/reality therapy consists of:
The client's self evaluation, plan of action, and commitment to follow through
_____________ provides a delivery system for helping individuals take more effective control of their lives.
Reality therapy
Reality therapy tends to be a long-term approach.
False
All of the following are procedures that are commonly used in reality
therapy except:
A. exploring wants, needs, and
perceptions
B. exploring early recollections
C. focusing on
the present
D. planning and commitment
B
The practice of reality therapy can best be conceptualized as the:
Cycle of counseling
Glasser believes the need to love and to belong are secondary needs.
False
Reality therapists see clients as being responsible for their own choices as they have more control of their behavior than they often believe.
True
What is the theoretical basis for reality therapy?
Choice theory
Choice theory emphasizes thinking and acting, which makes this a general form of:
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Reality therapy is popular in all of the following areas, except:
A. Schools
B. Medical facilities
C. State mental
hospitals
D. Halfway houses
B
Reality therapy is best described as:
A short-term therapy that deals with conscious behavioral problems.
The client's quality world consists of all of the following except:
A. Specific activities that fulfill our needs
B. Images of
people who enrich our lives
C. beliefs
D. insight
D
WDEP stands for:
Wants, doing, self-evaluation, planning
Which of the following is not a component of total behavior?
A.
wanting
B. doing
C. feeling
D. thinking
A
Wubbolding extended the theory and practice of reality therapy with his conceptualization of the:
WDEP System
Wubbolding believes all of the following encourage the client's
involvement in therapy except for:
A. appropriate use of humor
B. attending behavior
C. facilitative
self-disclosure
D. allowing the client to focus on symptoms
D
In reality therapy, the counseling environment is:
Characterized by a therapeutic climate that establishes the foundation for implementing procedures.
_________ posits that we are not born blank slates waiting to be externally motivated by forces in the world around us.
Choice theory
Wubbolding emphasizes that reality therapy is a mental health system rather than a:
Remediating system
Which of the following procedures would a reality therapist be least
likely to employ?
A. Skillful questioning
B. Encouraging
clients to look at what they are doing
C. Making action
plans
D. Reliving an early childhood event
D
If choice theory is the highway, reality therapy is the:
Vehicle delivering the product
All of the following are true about planning and commitment in
reality therapy, except:
A. Clients make a commitment to carry
out their plans
B. Commitment is not an all-or-nothing
matter
C. A great deal of time is spent on this step of reality
therapy
D. It is up to clients to determine how to take their
plans from therapy into their everyday world
C
In our quality world we develop an inner:
Picture album
What do reality therapists believe about the use of questions?
Relevant questions help clients gain insights and arrive at plans and solutions
_________ teaches that all behavior is made up of four inseparable but distinct components - acting, thinking, feeling, and physiology.
Total behavior
A reality therapist will primarily focus on:
Present behavior
When reality therapists explore a client's past, they tend to focus on:
Past successes
In reality therapy, the purpose of developing an action plan is to:
Arrange for successful experience
The role of meaningful relationships in fostering emotional health is receiving increased attention in:
Contemporary reality therapy
Which of the following is (are) a contribution of choice
theory/reality therapy?
A. It helps clients deal emotionally
with unfinished business from their past.
B. It provides insight
into the causes of one's problems
C. It is relatively short-term
focused on dealing with conscious behavioral problems
D. Most of
its concepts have been subjected to empirical testing
C
Reality therapy rests on the central idea that:
we choose our behavior and are responsible for what we do, think, and feel.
Glasser challenges the traditionally accepted views of mental illness and treatment by the use of medication, especially:
The widespread use of psychiatric drugs that often results in negative side effects both physically and psychologically.
A limitation of this approach as it applies to multicultural counseling is:
The power of the past and the effect of traumatic experiences in early childhood.
Choice theory changes the focus of responsibility to:
Choice and choosing
In a reality therapy group, the leader:
may encounter resistance from members when providing suggestions for how clients can best get what they want
All of the following are key characteristics of contemporary reality
therapy except for:
A. There is a focus on talking about
symptoms that bring a client into therapy
B. Emphasis is on
choice and responsibility
C. There is a rejection of the notion
of transference
D. Keep the therapy in the present
A
In working with Japanese clients, a reality therapist might do what when asking clients to make plans and commit to them?
The therapist might be likely to accept "I'll try" as a firm commitment
According to Glasser, many of the problems of clients are caused by:
Their inability to connect or to have a satisfying relationship with at least one of the significant people in their lives.
Glasser contends that ________ is a way that both therapist and client avoid being who they are and owning what they are doing right now.
Transference
Focusing on the ______ protects clients from facing the reality of unsatisfying present relationships, and focusing on symptoms does the same thing.
Past
A primary goal of contemporary reality therapy is to:
Help clients get connected/reconnected with the people they have chosen to put in their quality world.
Reality therapy is often considered as a
Mentoring process
Reality therapists believe in a generational basis for mental illness.
False
Reality therapy is not well suited to group counseling.
False
Reality therapy cautions against the therapist mentoring the client.
False
Most recently, reality therapy has been applied to management and supervision, coaching, family therapy, and parenting. It is now taught and embedded in every continent except Antartica.
True
One of the procedures of reality therapy is to work through unfinished business from the past.
False
Reality therapists see therapeutic value in working with a client's dreams.
False
Glasser took the position that schools needed to be structured in ways to help students achieve a success identity as opposed to a failure identity.
True
Reality therapists ask clients to take a hard look at whether their current actions are working for them.
True
Reality therapy sees transference as a way for the therapist to avoid getting personally involved in the clients' lives.
True
The core of reality therapy is developing a plan for change as a way of translating talk into action.
True
The first step in the process of reality therapy consists of a comprehensive assessment leading to a specific diagnosis.
False
Reality therapists refuse to accept excuses.
True
Reality therapists use punishment as a way to help clients follow through with their plans and commitments.
False
Reality therapy is a popular approach in correctional work.
True
It is essential for the therapist to establish a satisfying relationship with clients as a prerequisite for effective therapy. Once this relationship is developed, the skill of the therapist as listener and teacher assumes a central role.
True
Choice theory is based on the assumption that people are in charge of their own destiny.
True
Reality therapists maintain that clients will not change unless they assume a self-critical attitude.
False
Clients are expected to focus on their feelings and attitudes, and then their behavior will change.
False
Glasser recommends that therapists look back for the causes of a client's present failures.
False
A main function of the reality therapist is to encourage clients to assess their behavior to determine how well it is working for them.
True
Reality therapy is often used in treating drug and alcohol abusers.
True
It is the job of the reality therapist to convey the idea that no matter how bad things are there is hope.
True
The SAMIC3 plan is an essential part of the evaluation phase of the WDEP system.
False
Robert Wubbolding stresses the importance of a supportive and challenging therapeutic environment.
True
Addressing what clients are presently doing and asking clients to evaluate what they want to change fits well in various settings.
True
Reality therapy is an open system that allows flexibility in application based on the needs of culturally diverse individuals.
True