Deck 11: Reality Therapy and Choice Theory

Question 1

While working at the Ventura School for Girls, Glasser implemented a program emphasizing

A) responsibility.
B) kindness
C) respect
D) all of the above
E) B and C only

Answer 1

D

Question 2

According to Glasser, people exhibiting symptoms of maladjustment or mental illness

A) will "give up" their symptoms if friends and loved ones provide adequate compassion and support.
B) may experience one set of severe symptoms in an attempt either to control others or to avoid the consequences of legitimate feelings.
C) are not responsible for their misery, but can learn to improve their functioning by practicing new total behavior.
D) all of the above
E) A and C only

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Reality therapist Robert Wubbolding's "WDEP" stands for

A) Wants-Doing-Evaluation-Plan.
B) none of the above
C) Wants-Doing-Evaluation-Proposal.
D) Wishes-Direction-Evaluation-Plan.
E) Wants-Design-Evaluation-Plan.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Among the characteristics included in the SAMI2C3 system for assessing client plans, or proposals for change, are:

A) measurable outcome, immediate execution, attainable by client.
B) simplicity, measurable outcome, consideration of others.
C) client commitment, immediate execution, consideration of others.
D) controlled by client, measurable outcome, insightful purpose.
E) measured response, assessed outcome, control of self

Question 5

The need for power might be demonstrated by such actions as

A) adolescent struggles for independence.
B) bullying, or unethical business practices.
C) striving to prove one's competence in an educational setting.
D) all of the above
E) A and B only

Question 6

According to Glasser, choosing to depress

A) helps to keep angering under control.
B) enables a client to avoid relationships and/or challenges as well as the greater pain of embarrassment or rejection.
C) brings other people into a client's own service, albeit at some cost in terms of lost power, freedom, or fun.
D) is the best way a client who is depressing knows to meet one's needs.
E) all of the above

Question 7

Which of the following is a question a reality therapist might ask?

A) What is your earliest memory of your mother?
B) What do you like about your wife?
C) How well is what your doing getting you what you want?
D) How long do you volunteer each week?
E) Can you identify the cognitive distortion you just used?

Question 8

The primary role of the counselor in reality therapy is to

A) create a choice theory relationship between client and counselor.
B) facilitate change via an exploration of the client's biopsychosocial map.
C) listen attentively.
D) produce the necessary and sufficient conditions of empathy, genuineness and psoitive regard.
E) identify irrational thinking patterns.

Question 9

Which of the following statements are true of reality therapists?

A) They believe in determinism.
B) They emphasize free will.
C) They strictly follow the client's lead.
D) none of the above
E) A and C only

Question 10

Which of the following is not part of Wubbolding's stage model of achieving basic needs in a balanced manner?

A) an indication of some desire to change the current lifestyle in some way
B) dedication to daily behavior that produces a natural high but does not interfere with interpersonal relationships
C) evidence of a commitment to continued sessions with a certified reality therapist until new ways of behaving become second nature
D) one or more effective behaviors designed to move one toward the desired lifestyle
E) none of the above

Question 11

In reality therapy, the personality change process includes

A) replacing ineffective pictures in one's inner picture album.
B) assessing one's past.
C) dwelling on one's emotions.
D) none of the above
E) A and C only

Question 12

Of the five basic needs, Glasser placed greatest value upon

A) love and belonging
B) fun
C) freedom
D) power
E) survival

Question 13

""Total behvaior"" inlcudes all but which of the following

A) thinking
B) doing
C) physiology
D) exercise
E) feeling

Question 14

A reality therapist would encourage a client

A) to look for different options.
B) that one can control only oneself.
C) to activate the self actualizing tendency.
D) A and B only
E) none of the above

Question 15

When working with a client reporting symptoms of depression, a reality therapist

A) would focus on the client's choices to actively depress.
B) would forcefully confront the client.
C) would not accept excuses for not changing.
D) all of the above
E) A and C only

Question 16

When meeting the freedom need responsibly, Glasser (1998) noted that individuals used the defining human characteristic of

A) social interest
B) creativity
C) superiority
D) total behavior
E) one's Quality World

Question 17

According to choice theorists,

A) wants and needs are synonymous and total behavior is how you attain them.
B) wants are translated into needs by individuals who then use total behavior to attain them.
C) needs are translated into wants by individuals who then use total behavior to attain them.
D) total behavior is the behavioral component of meeting one's needs.
E) total behavior is the plan one uses to gain the wants from the needs.

Question 18

In choice theory, the quality world

A) is synonymous with the inner picture album.
B) is an innate potential psychic structure.
C) is made up of those phenomena that have fulfilled needs in the past.
D) all of the above
E) B and C only

Question 19

A reality therapist believes the familial environment

A) is a primary determinant of behavior.
B) greatly influences one's quality world.
C) influences a client based upon the client's perception of the environment.
D) all of the above
E) B and C only

Question 20

In reality therapy, the metaphor of a car is used to illustrate the dynamics of

A) one's inner picture album,
B) the brain as a choice apparatus.
C) total behavior.
D) the four basic needs.
E) the WDEP system