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Title: Reality TherapyChoice Therapy
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Reality Therapy/Choice Therapy
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Background
- Developed by William Glasser
- Psychiatrist
- Invented Reality Therapy
- Then invented Choice Therapy
- Studied and rejected Freud
- Worked with juvenile offenders
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Reality Therapy
- Basic Ideas
- Freud was incorrect
- Social relationships most important
- Students act out in response to bad
relationships - Example Tim mocks me in his lecture. This hurts
me. In response, I write Tim is old. Tim is old.
Tim is old.
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Reality Therapy
- Main Concept
- Teacher helps students
- 1. Identify behavior that doesnt meet social
norms - 2. Realize the actions are irresponsible
- 3. Replace the bad behavior with a socially
desirable behavior
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Reality Therapy
- Identify Inappropriate Behavior
- Dont ask why
- Focus on what they did wrong
- Let them identify the problem, not you
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Reality Therapy
- Identifying consequences
- Talk about outcomes
- Leading questions
- What do principals do when students fight?
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Reality Therapy
- Make Value Judgments
- Ask students if they want behavior to continue
- Ask students if the behavior is appropriate
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Reality Therapy
- Create a Plan
- Students must devise plan
- Teacher repeats what they said to force them into
making a plan - Be mild in your reactions
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Reality Therapy
- If this fails, repeat the process, adding in
punishment
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Choice Therapy
- Extension of Reality Therapy
- Also developed by Glasser
- Based on human needs, as defined by Glasser
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Choice Therapy
- Human Needs (the short list)
- Love
- Control
- Freedom
- Fun
- Students act out because they are trying to meet
these needs.
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Choice Therapy
- Teachers job is to balance those needs
- Provide students with what they lack
- Alter students mental picture
- Refocus control from other people to themselves
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