Talk:Reality Therapy

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I will try to clean this up and expand it into something fairly thorough, and I welcome comments and suggestions. Of course anyone can contribute directly to the article, but if it helps I'll volunteer to coordinate things; so, maybe we could contribute to the discussion before editing the article? For what it's worth, I have no philosophical ax to grind so I will be writing very carefully, neutrally, and simply as much as possible.

I will initially simply try to add structure and clarity, rather than majorly re-write the article. First, let's try to add a structure with appropriate sections - thoughts?

Possible sections:

• Introduction (to be written in very simple language with minimal assumptions of prior knowledge)
• History
• Philosophy & approach
• RT in practice & applications
• Research (I will certainly need help here, this I may leave for now)
• Criticism/comments of RT (to be done very neutrally, I'm not at all anti-RT)
• Comparison/contrast with other approaches (main points only, no flamewars!) and placing in *context.
• References
• More reading

I will edit and come back to it as much as possible, it will be a work in progres for the time being. Note, I do have some knowledge of the area and related areas, but I would very much welcome expert input.

If I don't hear from people I'll just go ahead! :-)

Paulc1001 12:20, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Looks a good structure to me. For my part, go for it. I've done some minor clean-up too, not major as although I understand the theory, I'm not an expert in it. My interest is to see a clean article, basically. FT2 22:50, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Process before Theory

I saw this article hadn't been edited for a while, so I added a section on the process itself (and removed a redundant paragraph from another section). The article as a whole still needs a lot of cleanup.

I think it's important to acknowledge that the process was developed before the theory-- Reality Therapy was being used successfully before Glasser came up with a theory to explain it (maybe some discussion of Glasser's early experiences at the VA hospital would be appropriate here).

I see Reality Therapy as a sort of bare-bones behavioral theory: convince the client to take any positive action, and build from there. IMHO much of Glasser's success is due to his emphasis on building and maintaining the therapeutic relationship while this is going on (as opposed to just focusing on the behaviors themselves). -Rbean 16:33, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] readibility

Under Criticisms

An opposing view to this is, that many other schools of therapy (especially cognitive approaches) focus on the present rather than the past, and that the concept of disconnection (or failure to correctly perceive how motive and inner need/intent are linked), is in some form or other, at the root of dysfunction is also considered not unusual, according to several other accepted schools of therapy, from transpersonal therapy through neuro-linguistic programming to transactional analysis.

Any one can rewrite this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 219.79.66.126 (talk) 18:47, 20 March 2007 (UTC).