Deck 11: Choice Theoryreality Therapy

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

D

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

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.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

is the theoretical basis for reality therapy.

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

Question 5

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 6

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

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

Question 7

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 8

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 9

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 10

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 11

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 12

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 13

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 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

In our quality world we develop an inner:

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

Question 16

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 17

A reality therapist will primarily focus on:

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

Question 18

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.

Question 19

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 20

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.

Question 21

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 22

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 23

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 24

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 25

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 26

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 27

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 28

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 29

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 30

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 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

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 33

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 34

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 35

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 36

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 37

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 38

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 39

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.
C) giving clients opportunities to express unresolved feelings.
D) the client's self-evaluation, plan of action, and commitment to follow through.

Question 40

Reality therapy is often considered as a:

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

Question 41

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

Question 42

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

Question 43

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

Question 44

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

Question 45

Reality therapists refuse to accept excuses.

Question 46

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

Question 47

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

Question 48

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

Question 49

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 50

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

Question 51

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 52

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 53

Reality therapy tends to be a long-term approach.

Question 54

Reality therapy is not well-suited to group counselling.

Question 55

Reality therapy is a popular approach in correctional work.

Question 56

Reality therapy cautions against the therapist mentoring the client.

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

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

Question 59

Reality therapists believe in a generational basis for mental illness.

Question 60

Commitment puts the responsibility directly on clients for changing.

Question 61

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

Question 62

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

Question 63

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

Question 64

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

Question 65

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

Question 66

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

Question 67

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

Question 68

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

Question 69

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

Question 70

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