Issues of concern in Reality Therapy

Reality therapy sees the past as the source of our wants and our ways of behaving. The focus of therapy is to learn what needs to be learned about the past but to move as quickly as feasible to empowering the client to satisfy his or her needs and wants in the present and in the future.

According to the theory, our present perceptions influence our present behaviour and it is these perceptions that the reality practitioner helps the client to work through. It is a therapy of hope based on the convictions that we are products of the past but we do not have to go on being its victims.

Choice theory provides the basis for reality therapy. The theory stresses that human behavior originates from five current sources of motivation or five human needs: Self-preservation, belonging, power or inner control, freedom or independence, and fun or enjoyment.

Most behaviors are chosen and serve two purposes: to impact the environment around us in order to satisfy the five needs and to send a message to or communicate with the surrounding world. According to the theory, if life is unsatisfactory or we are distressed or in trouble, one basic thing to check is whether we are succeeding in meeting our basic psychological needs as provided above

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