Reality Therapy

William Glasser

• Founder

• There is no such thing as mental illness

• People make themselves depressed with their choices and total behaviors

Robert Wobbolding

• Successor

• SAMIC3

• WDEP

5 basic needs

• survival

• Love and belonging

• Power

• Freedom

• Fun

Perceived worlds

Our perception of the world put through our filters to take in info

Total knowledge

level of meaningfulness

Valuing filter

positive, negative, or neutral value in helping us to meet our needs

Quality world

• mental pictures/images

• People, things, experiences, ideas

• How we orient ourselves

Total behavior

• Acting, thinking, feeling, physiology

• Acting and thinking is what we can change and “drive” while feelings and physiology just follow along where we point them

SAMIC3

• Simple

• Attainable

• Measurable

• Immediate

• Controlled

• Committed

• Continuous

Axioms of choice

• A SUMMARY OF REALITY THERAPY

• can only control our own behavior and give information to others

• long-lasting psychological issues stem from relationships. 

• past shapes who we are

•  we satisfy our basic needs and fulfill our "Quality World" pictures in the present.

•  Human action is acting, thinking, feeling, and physiology

• All behaviors are chosen and described by their most recognizable verbal components

7 caring habits

• Supporting

• Encouraging

• Listening

• Accepting

• Trusting

• Respecting

• Negotiating differences

7 deadly habits

• Criticizing

• Blaming

• Complaining

• Nagging

• Threatening

• Punishing

• Bribing or rewarding for control

WDEP

• used to help get inside clients’ inner discourse and help them make changes

• Wants 

• Doing

• Evaluation

• Planning