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COUN 539 Theories of Counseling Theory Analysis Paper Bri Anderson Theory: Reality Therapy Date: April 25 th , 2024 1. Identify the key individuals associated with reality therapy. William Glasser is ionically known for creating reality therapy in 1965 with two basic needs love and feeling worthwhile (Neukrug & Hays, 2022). Glasser is the youngest of three children from European immigrant parents. He completed his residency and went into private practice in 1957. Glasser consulted with Ventura School of Girls, a correctional facility, to work on applying/experimenting with his reality theory (Neukrug & Hays, 2022). Afterward, in 1967, he established the Institute of Reality Therapy and Educator Training Center, which he later renamed the William Glasser Institute (Neukrug & Hays, 2022). 1969, he published “Schools Without Failure” (Neukrug & Hays, 2022). In the 1970s, he expanded upon his core ideas and developed his version of control therapy, known as choice therapy. Throughout the 1990s, he became intrigued by Edward Deming’s total quality management, emphasized the importance of choice, began talking about the quality world, and truly started using the term choice therapy instead of control therapy (Neukrug & Hays, 2022). 2. Describe how choice theory is the theoretical underpinning of reality therapy.

Choice theory is the theoretical foundation for reality therapy (Neukrug & Hays, 2022). For the reason that choice therapy is used to guide how and why individuals function the way they do. Choice theory elaborated on the two basic needs at the start of reality theory into the five needs that make up the fundamental concepts of modern reality therapy today (Neukrug & Hays, 2022). These being the five innate needs of survival, freedom, love and belonging, fun, and power. When these needs are left unmet, this is when emotional issues may arise for an individual. With choice theory at the core of reality theory, a counselor guides clients toward awareness and understanding of their unfulfilled needs and works toward meeting them (Neukrug & Hays, 2022). Clients learn to identify what brings them satisfaction and what their quality world looks like. Under choice theory, the quality world represents a client’s true ideal desires and needs (Neukrug & Hays, 2022). Therapists assist clients in prioritizing these desires, determining what holds the most significance to them, and developing a plan to achieve them. 3. Describe the basic assumptions, unique characteristics, and goals of reality therapy. The main assumptions of reality therapy are based on the five primary needs of choice therapy (Neukrug & Hays, 2022). Reality therapy assumes every action an individual tries to meet one of those five needs. Reality therapy uniquely believes that all long- lasting psychological problems or relationship problems (Neukrug & Hays, 2022). However, the only person whose behavior we can control is our own, and all we can give another person is information. The ultimate cool within reality therapy is for the client to recognize that external factors do not control their behaviors, just as they cannot control another’s; external factors just give information (Neukrug & Hays, 2022). A client can only achieve a quality world through better-chosen total behavior. Total behavior is the

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