REALITY THERAPY By William Glasser

Reality therapy is a method of counseling and cognitive behavioral pshycotherapy are highly facused and interactive, and is one that has been applied succesfully in various spheres (Stepehen Palmer, 2010).

Reality Therapy developed by William Glasser (1960) as a reaction to the rejection of the concepts in pshychoanalysis counseling. William Glasser was born in 1925 in Ohio. At the age of 19, he graduate as a chemical engineer in the Case Institute of Technology. And at the age of 23 years he obtained a master’s degree in clinical psychology at Case Western Reserve University, and at the age of 28 years, Glasser graduated as a doctor at the same Unniversity (Gunarsa D. Singgih, 2007).

Glasser looked Psychoanalysis as a model of treatment that are less satisfactory, less effective, and therefore he was motivated to modify psychoanalytic concepts and develop his own ideas based on life experience and clinical experience. Because reality therapy focuses on the present life roblem (newest reality client) and the use of questioning techniques by the therapist asking reality, reality therapy proved to be very effective in the short term, although not limited to that alone.

Gerald Roley (2003) stated that in the formation of identity, of each of the individual will develop engagement with others and with the shadow self, which the individual will feel relatively successful and unsuccessful. Other people play an important role in explaining the individual to understand and explain identity itself. According to Glasser (1965) base reliatas basis of therapy is to assist clients in fulfilling basic psychological needs, namely the need to love and be loved and the need to feel that the individual is useful for itself and others.

The health humans emotionally have the following characteristics (Glasser, 1998; Glasser & Wubblolding, 1995; Wubbolding, 1991):

·         Can choose how to feel, how to think, and act the right way to meet their own needs without having to ignore or impede the rights of others to ememnuhi needs;

·         Not only striving to improve the quality of his own life but also to take steps to help the other stamps and shape the environment in order to become a better place for human life;

·         Formation of the image or identity of the person who managed (successfully establish identity) and better reflect their own internal frame of reference.

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