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Reality Therapy

Relationship Between Therapist and Client

For involvement between the therapist and client to occur, the counselor must have certain personal qualities, including:

Reality therapy emphasizes an understanding and supportive relationship, or therapeutic alliance, which is the foundation for effective outcomes (Wubbolding & Brickell, 2005; Wubbolding, Robey & Brickell, 2010).

  • warmth
  • sincerity
  • congruence
  • understanding
  • acceptance
  • concern
  • respect for the client
  • openness
  • and the willingness to be challenged by others

The therapist's skill in establishing a trusting relationship is critical. It is also important that the client perceives the therapist as being skilled and knowledgeable.

Wubbolding (2010, 2011a, 2011b) identifies specific ways for counselors to create a climate that leads to involvement with clients.

The basis for therapeutic interventions to work effectively rests on a fair, firm, friendly, and trusting environment. Once involvement has been established, the counselor assists clients in gaining a deeper understanding of the consequences of their current behavior.

Some of these ways entail...

  • using attending behavior
  • listening to clients
  • suspending judgment
  • doing the unexpected
  • using humor appropriately
  • being oneself as a counselor
  • engaging in facilitative self-disclosure
  • listening for metaphors in client's mode of self-expression
  • listening for themes
  • summarizing and focusing
  • allowing consequences
  • allowing silence
  • and being an ethical practitioner

Therapist's Function and Role

Client's Experience in Therapy

"Is what you are choosing to do getting you what you want and need?"

"How would you most like to change your life?"

Therapy is often considered as a mentoring process.

"What do you want in your life that you are not getting?"

"What would you have in your life if you were to change?"

Reality therapists teach clients how to engage in self-evaluation, which is done by raising the questions...

"What do you have to do now to make the change happen?"

When clients change what they are doing, they often change how they are feeling and thinking.

Therapists will gently, but firmly confront clients. Reality therapists often ask clients questions such as these:

Clients are not expected to backtrack into the past or get sidetracked into talking about symptoms.

"Is what you are choosing to do bringing you closer to the people you want to be closer to right now?"

It is the job of the therapist to convey idea that no matter how bad things are there is HOPE!

Neither will much time be spent talking about feelings separate from the acting and thinking that are part of the total behaviors over which clients have direct control.

"Is what you are doing getting you closer to a new person if you are presently disconnected from everyone?"

The therapist functions as an ADVOCATE, or someone who is ON THE CLIENT'S SIDE.

The role of the therapist is not to make evaluation for clients but to challenge clients to examine what they are doing.

THE EMPHASIS IS ON ACTIONS!

Reality therapist assist clients in evaluating their own:

Clients then decide what to change and formulate a plan to facilitate the desired changes

  • behavioral directions
  • specific actions
  • wants
  • perceptions
  • level of commitments
  • possibilities for new directions
  • and action plans

The outcome is better relationships, increased happiness, and sense of inner control of their lives (Wubbolding, 2011b).

Clients can expect to experience some urgency in therapy. Time is important, as each session may be the last.

Client's should be able to say themselves, "I can begin to use what we talked about today in my life. I am able to bring my present experiences to therapy as my problems are in the present, and my therapist will not let me escape from that fact."

The Therapeutic Process

In addition to fulfilling this need for love and belonging,

A primary goal of contemporary reality therapy is...

a basic goal of reality therapy is to help clients learn better ways of fulfilling all their needs including...

...to help clients get connected or reconnected with the people they have chosen to put in their quality world.

ACHIEVEMENT, POWER or INNER CONTROL, FREEDOM or INDEPENDENCE, and FUN.

It is essential for counselors to do whatever they can to get connected with involuntary clients.

In many instances, clients come voluntarily for therapy, and these clients are the easiest to help.

The basic human needs serve to focus treatment planning and setting both short- and long-term goals.

If the counselor is unable to make a connection, there is no possibility of providing significant help.

If the counselor CAN make a connection, the goal of teaching the client how to fulfill his or her needs can SLOWLY begin.

However, another goal entails working with an increasing number of involuntary clients who may actively resist the therapist and the therapy process.

Reality therapist assist clients in making MORE EFFECTIVE and RESPONSIBLE CHOICES related to their WANTS and NEEDS.

These individuals often engage in:

  • violent behavior
  • addictions
  • and other kinds of antisocial behaviors

Prepared by: Garcia, Ciara Jamie S.

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