Deck 11: Choice Theoryreality Therapy

Question 1

If choice theory is the highway, reality therapy is the:

A) vehicle delivering the product.
B) roadmap.
C) moving truck taking the product with it.
D) exit to leave the highway.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

posits that we are not born blank slates waiting to be externally motivated by forces in the world around us.

A) WDEP theory
B) Behaviour therapy
C) Choice theory
D) Motivational therapy

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The client's quality world consists of all of the following except:

A) specific activities that fulfil our needs.
B) images of people who enrich our lives.
C) beliefs.
D) insight.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Wubbolding emphasises that reality therapy is a mental health system rather than a:

A) remediating system.
B) theoretical system.
C) medical system.
D) behavioural system.

Question 5

Wubbolding extended the theory and practice of reality therapy with his conceptualisation of the:

A) reality theory.
B) choice theory.
C) WDEP system.
D) quality world.

Question 6

A reality therapist will primarily focus on:

A) past behaviour.
B) present behaviour.
C) feelings.
D) thoughts.

Question 7

In our quality world we develop an inner:

A) total behaviour.
B) freedom.
C) picture album.
D) power.

Question 8

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

Question 9

Which of the following is not a component of total behaviour?

A) Wanting
B) Doing
C) Feeling
D) Thinking

Question 10

Choice theory emphasises thinking and acting, which makes this a general form of:

A) psychoanalytic therapy.
B) non-directive therapy.
C) Gestalt therapy.
D) cognitive behaviour therapy.

Question 11

is the theoretical basis for reality therapy.

A) WDEP theory
B) Choice theory
C) Behaviour therapy
D) Cognitive behavioural therapy

Question 12

What do reality therapists believe about the use of questions?

A) They should rarely be used.
B) Relevant questions help clients gain insights and arrive at plans and solutions.
C) There is no such thing as excessive questioning; the more the better!
D) Closed questions are more helpful than open-ended questions.

Question 13

In reality therapy, the counselling environment is:

A) the time to explore past trauma.
B) characterised by a therapeutic climate that establishes the foundation for implementing procedures.
C) highly structured with the aim of changing cognitions.
D) conducive to restructuring one's personality.

Question 14

teaches that all behaviour is made up of four inseparable but distinct components - acting, thinking, feeling, and physiology.

A) Total behaviour
B) Quality world
C) Picture album
D) Birth and death

Question 15

Wubbolding believes all of the following encourage the client's involvement in therapy except for:

A) appropriate use of humour.
B) attending behaviour.
C) facilitative self-disclosure.
D) allowing the client to focus on symptoms.

Question 16

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.

Question 17

WDEP stands for:

A) wants, decision, self-evaluation, perception.
B) wishes, direction, engagement, purpose.
C) wants, doing, self-evaluation, planning.
D) wants, direction, efficacy, planning.

Question 18

The function of the reality therapist is to:

A) assist clients in dealing with the present.
B) encourage clients to make a value judgement concerning the quality of their behaviour.
C) confront clients about specific irrational thoughts and ideas and to teach them to think rationally.
D) reindoctrinate clients with the acceptable standards for living.

Question 19

Reality therapy is best described as:

A) an intensive and long-term therapy.
B) a rational therapy.
C) an insight therapy.
D) a short-term therapy that deals with conscious behavioural problems.

Question 20

Reality therapy is popular in all of the following areas, except:

A) schools.
B) medical facilities.
C) state mental health hospitals.
D) halfway houses.

Question 21

In reality therapy, the purpose of developing an action plan is to:

A) encourage clients to stretch beyond their limits.
B) teach clients to 'think big'.
C) arrange for successful experience.
D) arrive at the ultimate solution to a client's problem.

Question 22

According to Glasser, many of the problems of clients are caused by:

A) unfinished business with parents.
B) sibling rivalry.
C) early childhood trauma.
D) their inability to connect or to have a satisfying relationship with at least one of the significant people in their lives.

Question 23

The core of choice theory/reality therapy consists of:

A) teaching clients how to acquire rational beliefs instead of irrational beliefs.
B) helping clients to understand their unconscious dynamics.
D) the client's self-evaluation, plan of action, and commitment to follow through.

Question 24

In a reality therapy group, the leader:

A) is responsible for evaluating the clients' behaviours.
B) performs an assessment to determine if the client is truly getting what he or she wants in life.
C) withholds feedback when members are designing their plans.
D) may encounter resistance if they make poorly timed suggestions and plans for how the members should best live.

Question 25

provides a delivery system for helping individuals take more effective control of their lives.

A) Group counselling
B) The WDEP system
C) Assessment theory
D) Reality therapy

Question 26

Focusing on the 'protects' clients from facing the reality of unsatisfying present relationships, and focusing on symptoms does the same thing.

A) past
B) present
C) future
D) therapist

Question 27

Glasser challenges the traditionally accepted views of mental illness and treatment by the use of medication, especially:

A) the widespread use of psychiatric drugs that often results in negative side effects both physically and psychologically.
B) the lack of use of psychiatric drugs.
C) the use of any psychiatric drugs whether or not they result in negative side effects.
D) because medications are never needed.

Question 28

In working with Japanese clients, a reality therapist might do which of the following when asking clients to make plans and commit to them?

A) The therapist might be likely to accept 'I'll try' as a firm commitment.
B) The therapist would push clients for an explicit pledge to follow through.
C) The therapist would view a noncommittal response as a sign of weakness.
D) The therapist would refer their clients if they refused to commit to a plan.

Question 29

The role of meaningful relationships in fostering emotional health is receiving increased attention in:

A) WDEP.
B) contemporary reality therapy.
C) value judgement.
D) behavioural therapy.

Question 30

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.

Question 31

The practice of reality therapy can best be conceptualised as the:

A) history of therapy.
B) past processing theory.
C) roadmap to theory.
D) cycle of counselling.

Question 32

Reality therapy rests on the central idea that:

A) thinking largely determines how we feel and behave.
B) we choose our behaviour and are responsible for what we do, think, and feel.
C) environmental factors largely control what we are doing.
D) the way to change dysfunctional behaviour is to re-experience a situation in which we originally became psychologically stuck.

Question 33

When reality therapists explore a client's past, they tend to focus on:

A) relationships within the family.
B) early traumatic events.
C) problems in school performance.
D) past successes.

Question 34

Which of the following is 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 behavioural problems.
D) Most of its concepts have been subjected to empirical testing.

Question 35

A limitation of this approach as it applies to multicultural counselling is that:

A) the power of the past and the effect of traumatic experiences in early childhood.
B) this therapy provides specific tools to help clients make the changes they desire.
C) the concept of the quality world is abstract and lacks cross-cultural appeal.
D) reality therapists must be careful when adapting their approach to non-western cultures.

Question 36

A primary goal of contemporary reality therapy is to:

A) help clients become more voluntarily acceptable.
B) supply the basic human needs.
C) help clients get connected or reconnected with the people they have chosen to put in their quality world.
D) create goals.

Question 37

All of the following are key characteristics of contemporary reality therapy except:

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.

Question 38

Reality therapy is often considered as a:

A) long in-depth process.
B) mentoring process.
C) symptom focusing theory.
D) past processing theory.

Question 39

Choice theory changes the focus of responsibility to:

A) self-help procedures.
B) the use of humour.
C) homework assignments.
D) choice and choosing.

Question 40

Glasser contends that is a way that both therapist and client avoid being who they are and owning what they are doing right now.

A) responsibility
B) questioning
C) transference
D) choice

Question 41

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.

Question 42

Reality therapy is a popular approach in correctional work.

Question 43

Commitment puts the responsibility directly on clients for changing.

Question 44

Reality therapy cautions against the therapist mentoring the client.

Question 45

Reality therapists use punishment as a way to help clients follow through with their plans and commitments.

Question 46

Reality therapists ask clients to take a hard look at whether their current actions are working for them.

Question 47

Reality therapy is not well-suited to group counselling.

Question 48

Reality therapists believe in a generational basis for mental illness.

Question 49

Reality therapists refuse to accept excuses.

Question 50

Glasser believes the need to love and to belong are secondary needs.

Question 51

Reality therapists see therapeutic value in working with a client's dreams.

Question 52

Choice theory is based on the assumption that people are in charge of their own destiny.

Question 53

Reality therapy sees transference as a way for the therapist to avoid getting personally involved in the clients' lives.

Question 54

Reality therapy tends to be a long-term approach.

Question 55

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 Antarctica.

Question 56

The first step in the process of reality therapy consists of a comprehensive assessment leading to a specific diagnosis.

Question 57

Reality therapists see clients as being responsible for their own choices as they have more control of their behaviour than they often believe.

Question 58

The core of reality therapy is developing a plan for change as a way of translating talk into action.

Question 59

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.

Question 60

One of the procedures of reality therapy is to work through unfinished business from the past.

Question 61

Robert Wubbolding stresses the importance of a supportive and challenging therapeutic environment.

Question 62

Glasser recommends that therapists look back for the causes of a client's present failures.

Question 63

Reality therapists maintain that clients will not change unless they assume a self-critical attitude.

Question 64

Reality therapy is often used in treating drug and alcohol abusers.

Question 65

Addressing what clients are presently doing and asking clients to evaluate what they want to change fits well in various settings.

Question 66

Reality therapy is an open system that allows for flexibility in application based on the needs of culturally diverse individuals.

Question 67

Clients are expected to focus on their feelings and attitudes, and then their behaviour will change.

Question 68

A main function of the reality therapist is to encourage clients to assess their behaviour to determine how well it is working for them.

Question 69

It is the job of the reality therapist to put across the idea that no matter how bad things are there is hope.

Question 70

The SAMIC3 plan is an essential part of the evaluation phase of the WDEP system.