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According to choice theory, mental illness can be linked to personal unhappiness. Glasser champions how we are able to learn and choose alternate behaviors that result in greater personal satisfaction. Reality therapy is a choice theory-based counseling process focused on helping clients learn to make those self-optimizing choices. [citation ...
The Control Theory Manager, 1994 ISBN 0-88730-719-1; Staying Together, 1995 ISBN 0-06-092699-6; Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom, 1997 ISBN 0-06-093014-4; Reality Therapy in Action, 2000 (re-issued in 2001 as Counseling with Choice Theory ISBN 0-06-095366-7) Every Student Can Succeed, 2000 ISBN 1-58275-051-3
Reality therapy (RT) is an approach to psychotherapy and counseling developed by William Glasser in the 1960s. It differs from conventional psychiatry, psychoanalysis and medical model schools of psychotherapy in that it focuses on what Glasser calls "psychiatry's three Rs" – realism, responsibility, and right-and-wrong – rather than mental disorders. [1]
Multitheoretical psychotherapy (MTP) is a new approach to integrative psychotherapy developed by Jeff E. Brooks-Harris and his colleagues at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Emotional choice theory posits that individual-level decision-making is shaped in significant ways by the interplay between people’s norms, emotions, and identities. While norms and identities are important long-term factors in the decision process, emotions function as short-term, essential motivators for change.
Counseling is the professional guidance of the individual by utilizing psychological methods especially in collecting case history data, using various techniques of the personal interview, and testing interests and aptitudes.
Harvey Jackins' own story of the origins of Re-evaluation Counseling leaves out any mention of Dianetics. As he told it, he began to develop Re-evaluation Co-Counseling after observing a troubled friend make changes in his thinking process through being patiently listened to while he cried.
The origins of choice modelling can be traced to Thurstone's research into food preferences in the 1920s and to random utility theory. [4] In economics, random utility theory was then developed by Daniel McFadden [5] and in mathematical psychology primarily by Duncan Luce and Anthony Marley. [6]