Question

For this discussion, you will create a scenario in which you are counseling a client, applying techniques from Reality theory. The details of the counseling session scenario are up to you; however, note that your client must come from a diverse social or cultural background. Write the script of your hypothetical counseling session. The script must have at least 20 responses—10 from the client and 10 from you as the counselor. Your responses must align with the philosophy and goals of Reality theory and with the multicultural contributions or strengths of Reality theory. Be sure that your interventions align with Reality theory of change, interventions, and its vision of client and counselor roles. You will present the following:

1) A brief introduction to the client scenario. The theory you are choosing to apply (REALITY) with a brief rationale for why it is appropriate for the client and his or her presenting problem.

2) Your script, which illustrates REALITY theory. A

3) Paragraph discussing how concepts you applied in the script related REALITY theory's key concepts, theory of change, interventions, and vision of client and counselor roles.

4) A paragraph discussing how your client's social or cultural background affected your application of your chosen approach.

Clinical Approach and Evaluation

Reality Therapy offers ways of setting the environment and follows procedures that lead to change. This process interrelates with choice theory in ascertaining the quality world pictures, needs, total behavior, and evaluation emanating from perceiving to what degree the person has matched their pictures to get he needs. Some questions may be: What do you want out of life? What do you want out of your relationship? What do you desire out of your friends? Out of work? Out of play? Out of power?

Wubbolding used and Reality Therapy and streamlined counseling procedures (Wubbolding, 2000). Fie provided the acronym WDEP which allows counselors not only to ground themselves in a coherent framework, but to expand into a myriad of questions within the process (Wubbolding, 2000). This process is intended for clinicians to follow a path within the counseling session. First they obtain what the client wants, what he is doing to achieve it. Then they help the client evaluate current behavior, and assess the plan. Within this framework, counseling comes to a quick close. This occurs because clinicians ignore past history, unconscious activity, and transference. They focus mainly on thinking and acting (hand and handle) aspects of total behavior. The Freudian concepts do not fit into this model because focusing on emotion and past history is fruitless except to elucidate the present and this is a decision made by the counselor. If reviewing the past only allows clients to relive painful experiences, then this would not be within the realm of reality therapy. Reality Therapy operates in the present moment with present relationships (Glasser, 1998).

Client evaluation, then, is based on client wants, their behaviors and their plan to achieve what they really want. The clinician listens to the client's story and gathers pertinent data; however, the clinician does not make a mental health diagnosis outright. That said, a diagnosis is ethically mandatory even if Choice Theorists disagree with the DSM. Fie stated that a pathological diagnosis is only necessary for insurance purposes (Glasser, 1998).

Answer 1

The dialogue could be as follow: Counselor would be denoted by a C and the Subject by the letter S

After the rapport building process we will directly continue with the prospect of an intervention and tackling of a given conundrum.

C: What has been troubling you off late?

S: I feel quite silly talking about it, but I feel I need to let it out, but i can't seem to articulate cause it is really silly.

C: well, this is a no judgment space, I hope you are aware of that, and everybodys threshold for a certain problem differs, that doesn't make you or the problem silly, but different.

S: Yes. Yes, you are right. So here it goes. I am the only Indian professional within my organization who holds a fairly decent position, and i can't help but feel as though i do not deserve it or that i am incompetent.

C: Since when and for how long have you been feeling this way for?

S: For roughly a few months now. i guess since the past 4 months or so.

C: Okay. And do you have an inkling regarding why you might be feeling this incompetency, is there a reason, something that makes you feel incompetent?

S: well, now that you mention it, I have been thinking about it quite a lot off late, and i have attributed this feeling as a consequence of my relationship with my colleagues.

C: What about your colleagues and the relationship you share with them?

S: It is this feeling that each task I do, they are somewhere judging me and thinking of me as an undeserving addition to their firm. It is this feeling i get as soon as i present my idea, as though they are looking through me, as though my idea are not worthy of their attention. I feel miserable after most meeting and i have been considering quitting although i like my job and it pays me well, solely for the reason that i am becoming emotionally weak.

C: But you did obtain this job through a promotion, and promotions are provided to those who the company feels they deserve. Have your recent ideas been rejected by the primary people of the hierarchy?

S: No, in fact they love it.

C: Have you tried broaching the topic, even implicitly with one of the colleagues you think you can potentially speak to?

S: No. I haven't. I often thought about, but refrained from indulging.

C: Is this behavior amongst your colleagues common across other colleagues too or is it merely confined to you?

S: Actually, i have seen it across some others too, but i disregarded those cause those could be momentary blips,or me wanting to see something like that. But, i feel i have seen it happening sometimes, and now that i think of it, this reaction is always towards people who present good ideas.

C: So what you're saying is that their reaction is potentially towards good idea, and as a result on to the people presenting those good ideas.

S: Yes! I guess it is envy or jealousy if i analyze it.

C: So you told me that your almost all your recent ideas have been quite appreciated by your bosses.

S: Yes. My only fault has been i am actually good at my work probably.

C: That is a high possibilty. Why don't we do an excersice? You go to office and start maintaining a journal of each time you think your colleague are displaying sigsn of disdain for anyone and yoursefl and the moments they display taht disdain. Maybe we could see a relation and tackle it even better.

S: That sounds great. I should do that . Thank you.