PCN 107 Final Exam Review: Reality Therapy |
Questions and Answers
Dr W. Glasser's basic needs - -love and belonging, power, fun, survival, freedom
-William Glasser (theory, birth year, why he created it) - -- reality therapy
- 1925
- created in response to dissatisfaction with psychoanalysis
-Robert Wubbolding (job) - -head of center for reality therapy
-Love and Belonging (importance, personalities unsuitable for long term relationships and
why) - -- Glasser's most important need
- 2 personalities not suited for long term relationships:
#1 sociopath: prioritize power and freedom and lack empathy response
#2 workless individual: low needs for survival and amplified need for power. lack energy to
fulfill need for power
-Quality world (world of what, when it starts, need associated with it, relation to
consciousness and choice and exception) - -- world of wants
- starts at birth
- need fulfilling objects or people
- most objects in the quality world are put there by conscious choice
- exception is parents/ caregivers
-Total behavior (what it accentuates, 4 components) - -- accentuates the multidimensional
nature of human behavior
- 4 components:
#1 acting
#2 feeling
#3 thinking
#4 physiological
-Choice theory (beliefs about choice, on what basis, how many axioms) - -- we choose
everything
- ideological basis
- 10 axioms
-Dysfunction in RT (relation to choice, what results from that, what we choose instead and
its avoidance and function) - -- bad choices
- we get lonely
- choose depression to deal with difficulty
- choose depression to avoid tougher alternatives
- choose depression bc it's more functional than anger
Questions and Answers
Dr W. Glasser's basic needs - -love and belonging, power, fun, survival, freedom
-William Glasser (theory, birth year, why he created it) - -- reality therapy
- 1925
- created in response to dissatisfaction with psychoanalysis
-Robert Wubbolding (job) - -head of center for reality therapy
-Love and Belonging (importance, personalities unsuitable for long term relationships and
why) - -- Glasser's most important need
- 2 personalities not suited for long term relationships:
#1 sociopath: prioritize power and freedom and lack empathy response
#2 workless individual: low needs for survival and amplified need for power. lack energy to
fulfill need for power
-Quality world (world of what, when it starts, need associated with it, relation to
consciousness and choice and exception) - -- world of wants
- starts at birth
- need fulfilling objects or people
- most objects in the quality world are put there by conscious choice
- exception is parents/ caregivers
-Total behavior (what it accentuates, 4 components) - -- accentuates the multidimensional
nature of human behavior
- 4 components:
#1 acting
#2 feeling
#3 thinking
#4 physiological
-Choice theory (beliefs about choice, on what basis, how many axioms) - -- we choose
everything
- ideological basis
- 10 axioms
-Dysfunction in RT (relation to choice, what results from that, what we choose instead and
its avoidance and function) - -- bad choices
- we get lonely
- choose depression to deal with difficulty
- choose depression to avoid tougher alternatives
- choose depression bc it's more functional than anger
