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A key strength of reality therapy is that it provides clients with tools to make the changes they desire.

True

False

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

True

False

When working with clients from certain ethnic groups reality therapy exposes shortcomings. Which of the following is not a shortcoming?

It may not take fully into account some very real environmental forces that operate against them in their everyday lives.

Some reality therapists may make the mistake of too quickly or too forcefully stressing the ability of their clients to take charge of their lives

Some clients are very reluctant to directly verbally express what they need.

It provides clients with tools to make the changes they desire

According to this approach, insight

Is not sufficient for producing behavior change on its own

Can be given to the client by the teachings of the therapist

Will come only with changed attitudes.

Is necessary before behavior change can occur

Choice theory explains the view of human nature as we are born with five genetically encoded needs that drive us all our lives. Which of the following is not one

Love and belonging

Power, or inner control

Discipline

Survival, or self-preservation, and fun

Which is not a key concept of reality therapy?

Reject transference

Keep the therapy the present

Avoid focusing on symptoms

Unconscious motivation

Which of the following is not true of reality therapy?

Clients must make commitments

It is based on the premise that acting and thinking are chosen behaviors

Working through the transference relationship is essential for therapy to occur

Therapists do not accept excuses or blaming

Regarding the goals of reality therapy,

It is the therapist’s responsibility to decide specific goals for clients

It is to help clients learn better ways of fulfilling all of their needs

The goals of therapy should be universal to all clients

Society must determine the proper goals for all clients

In reality therapy, our quality world is likened to

An expensive sports car

A celebrity’s life

A reality TV show

A picture album

Which statement is not true of reality therapy?

Planning is essential

The focus is on the client’s strengths

It focuses on attitude change as a prerequisite for behavior change

It is based on a personal relationship

Reality therapy was designed originally for working with

Alcoholics

Outh offenders in detention facilities

Drug addicts

Elementary school children

Which of the following is a technique used by a reality therapist?

The analysis of dreams

The search for causes of current problems

Hypnosis

the WDEP System

Which of the following statements is true as it applies to choice theory?

We are controlled by the events that occur in our lives

Behavior is the result of external forces

We are motivated completely by internal forces, and our behavior is our best attempt to get what we want

We can control the behavior of others by learning to actively listen to them

According to Glasser, all of the following are basic psychological needs except for

Freedom

Power

Belonging

Competition

An axiom of choice theory is that

Mental illness is the cause of bad choices people make

All serious problems are rooted in unconscious drives that dictate behavior

The past is the problem

Although the past may have contributed to a current problem the past is never the problem

Sometimes it seems as though people actually choose to be miserable (depressed). From Glasser’s perspective, which of the following does not imply passivity and lack of personal responsibility

Being understood

Being angry

Being depressed

Having a headache

All of the following are procedures in reality therapy that are said to lead to change except for

Focusing on current behavior

The client’s evaluationg of his or her own behavior

Exploring wants, needs, and perceptions

The therapist’s evaluating of the client’s behavior

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