Reality Therapy Paper

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1. In what ways did the counselor using Glasser's Reality Therapy demonstrate the counselor listening and communication skills described by Nystul and Waldo? How might the counselor's listening and communication skills be improved? Please offer examples from the video of both strengths and areas for improvement. The counselor demonstrated the counselor’s listening and communication skills described by Nystul and Waldo very well. An analogy that the counselor used in the beginning was that everyone has an inner/mental house and when treating a client with reality therapy the counselor’s goal is to get into that inner/mental house to become someone who could relate and connect to the client and then help the client identify what exactly they…show more content…
Many times when I make decisions I tend to overthink everything and this causes me to make poor decisions. What I like about reality therapy is it makes you realize that you are the one responsible and the one that is in control. Like in the video, Juan was stating reasons why he can finish his thesis and the counselor tells him “There are 1000 reasons for not doing what you want to do and you’ve nailed about 5”. This describes me perfectly, I always think of 1000 excuses of not doing something instead of just making the simple decision to do it. I feel that reality therapy would be a difficult process but in the end I would benefit from it…show more content…
I feel that Reality Therapy wouldn’t be best type of therapy to use with these types of clients due to the fact that it doesn’t recognize the various mental disorders described in the DSM-IV-TR. But I do believe that some of the techniques used in Reality Therapy do have the potential to greatly help children and adolescents struggling with mental disorders. One of the many issues that patients with mental health disorders struggle with are meeting there psychological needs of loving and of feeling worthwhile to their self and to others. Reality Therapy targets these exact issues and helps develop a success identity. The therapy targets these issues by using the techniques such as Choice theory and the WDEP approach. For example, a counselor might use choice theory to help a client who is suffering from PTSD who can’t make decisions and participate in certain activities. Using choice theory the counselor can help this client take better control over their lives and decisions. Some problems that I might encounter with using this approach are mental health clients needing more help than what Glasser’s Reality therapy can offer such as medical and psychiatric help. Another issue is reality therapy does not recognize mental health disorders. But like I mentioned before, some of the techniques used in reality therapy can help mental health patients
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