Reality Therapy

Reality Therapy is a cognitive-behavioral approach in which a therapist helps a client understand the reality of the world around them and how to function in it. This type of counseling is for patients that have the same basic problem, which is the inability to fulfill their essential needs for survival, love, power, freedom and fun. The therapist would then help the patient develop strength to accept responsibility.

Reality therapy was developed by an internationally recognized psychiatrist, Dr. William Glasser in the mid-1960’s, who is best known for writing a book using the same title in 1965. Born in 1925 and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Glasser was initially a Chemical Engineer but went into psychiatry when it became apparent to him that this was his real interest in life. Glasser's path progressed from private practice to lecturing and writing and then publishing over twenty books. Dr. Glasser’s approach is non-traditional.

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