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View of Human Nature

Choice theory – We are not born blank slates.


Five genetically encoded needs:
1. Survival or self-preservation
2. Love and belonging - Glasser (2001, 2005) believes the need to love and to belong is
the primary need.
3. Power or inner control
4. Freedom or independence
5. Fun
Our brain functions as a control system. Reality therapists teach clients choice theory so
clients can identify unmet needs and try to satisfy them.
Birth to present – we keep close track of anything we do that feels very good.
Quality World:
- Completely based on our wants and needs.
- In our quality world we develop an inner picture album of specific wants.
- Therapist’s role – help the client clarify blurred pictures. Pictures exist in priority
yet clients have difficulty identifying their priority. (Wubbolding, 2011a).
- People we are closest to – most important component. Those who enter therapy
have no one in their quality world.
- Successful therapy = the client put their therapist in their quality world.

Choice Theory Explanation of Behavior


Choice Theory – all we ever do from birth to death is behave and everything we do is
chosen.
Total behavior – our best attempt to satisfy our needs.
4 distinct components:
1-2. Acting & Thinking – General form of cognitive behavior/reality therapy.
3. Feeling
4. Physiology
Behavior – closes the gap between what we want and what we perceive we are getting.
Glasser’s perspective:
- Being depressed, having a headache, being angry, or being anxious – depressing,
headaching, angering, and anxietying.
- Ex:
Client: “I’m suffering, don’t tell me I’m choosing to suffer like this.”
Therapist: (explains pain and suffering is unchosen and says to the client that his or
her behavior is their best effort to satisfy their needs.)
Robert Wubbolding (personal communication, April 4, 2015)
- Behavior is a language and we send messages by what we are doing.
- Purpose of behavior: to influence the world to get what we want.
- Ex:
o Therapist to the client: What message do you want others to get? What
message are others getting whether or not you intended to send them?

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