EXAMINATION TEST WITH FULL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT SOLUTIONS
⫸ What makes a good action plan? Answer: Simple, Attainable,
Measurable, Immediate (or time-limited), Client-centered, Consistent,
and Committed to. The plan should focus on taking control of one's own
behavior, breaking goals into specific and achievable steps, and building
a strategy that can be followed through with without relying on external
factors.
Reality therapists usually help their clients make plans and execute them
in direct ways. However, sometimes clients may resist change. At such
times, reality therapists may use paradoxical techniques, referring to the
provision of contradictory instructions to clients to help them overcome
resistance and move in the direction of further therapeutic change
⫸ How does reality therapy conceptualize client responsibility? Answer:
Glasser advocated using active verbs to describe human suffering and
problems. Instead of the usual way of saying "I am depressed" or "I have
a headache" or "I am angry" or "I am anxious," all of which reflect
passivity and tend to be incorrect and to reinforce a denial of personal
responsibility, Glasser preferred to use more accurate verb forms in
saying "I am depressing," "I am headaching," "I am angering," or "I am
anxietying." This way of speaking challenges clients to remember that
they are choosing their own behavior, and hence they are actually
depressing themselves, angering themselves, or making themselves
anxious. They are thus held responsible for choosing their own suffering