Personal Therapy

Social Reflection (S-R Therapy)

       

                             Every time we hear social reflection we may immediately think of our interaction, our relationship to communicate to others.  But if we are going to analyze the meaning of Social Reflection it is about taking the time to figure out who we are, as individuals and as a human in terms of social interaction.  Social interaction is a dynamic, changing sequence of social actions between individuals (or groups) who modify their actions and reactions due to the actions by their interaction partner(s). In other words they are events in which people attach meaning to a situation, interpret what others are meaning, and respond accordingly.
 When we say reflection it is a thought process and a technique for evaluating  our own performance. It involves looking at our own learning and development needs like love and belongings. Understanding and acknowledging of our feelings and feelings of others is an important part of this process. This therapy is based on Adlerian approach which emphasize the the interpretation of unconscious life that the individual are victims neither of their genetic endowment nor of their social conditioning. Rather, they are responsible for themselves and learn to respond in adaptive, creative ways to our surroundings.

View of human life

In order to understand who we are as a human in terms of social interaction we can set some questions that would help to reflect our own self and behavior toward to other:

·         What can I do to build a strong relationship?

·         What resentments do I need to resolve in order to move forward more optimistically with the understand of others?

·         What did I make mistakes to my family, friends, and classmates?

·         How does my misbehavior started that affect to others?

This sample of questions guides to examine our self  interaction what kind of person we are. Social Reflection also allows us to identify and ‘own’ our traits, both our personality traits and our value. When we are able to recognize our traits, as we reflect we are able to monitor our interactions with others. Both from the standpoint of why we are feeling the way we do and our actions that result from those feelings.

Development of Maladaptive behavior

        People who are feeling depress, isolated, lack of attention, aggressive, neglect, rejection, etc. are the common factors that develop their misbehavior. According to Adler people need to cooperate with and contribute to society in order to  realize personal as well as social goals. Regarding to  social interest as a force that opposed a striving for superiority, that  prevented people from being selfish. We all know that our child is often change their behavior based on what they see or being imitations to others. We can apply this therapy to help our client to realize them what they are done on their socialization.  talk to them and explain very well how does the social interaction help and what can contribute for the benefits to us.

Function of the therapist          

            In this therapy the counselor need to establish and maintain accepting,caring,supportive and cooperative relationship. The counselor and the client work together to realize them the importance of social acceptance and interest. This approach focus to the client that prefer to be alone or being isolated rather than to have a big group. As a teacher we should aware the differences of our students what they want to choose or what they want to have and especially what they are needs. The counselor should demonstrate what are the good ways on how to build a good relationship to others. We should relate the importance of this saying that" No man is an island" in this thoughts the client should responds what are the appropriate act toward to others.




Goals of Therapy
   The goal of this therapy is to show the importance of social acceptance,understanding of the feeling of others, social interest, the feeling of community.To help the client to  learn how to be most effective in directing their own socialization. Special attention will be paid to exploration, play, creativity, wisdom, and positive reinforcement -- that focus of this therapy to the client.


Major Methods and Techniques

• Encouragement= One of the best ways that the teacher/counselor encourage the client to have an social interest. This technique is use to build a relationship and to foster a client change.
•  Modeling= In this methods The counselor will demonstrate the importance of socialization. The client observe and imitates the appropriate behavior  in terms of communication.
• Role play=The role-play process provides students with an opportunity to 1) explore their feelings, 2) gain insight about their attitudes,and 3) increase problem solving skills.
• Instruction= The counselor teach the client to reflect their behavior how they see themselves in communication skills.

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Summary of Reality therapy

Reality Therapy

INTRODUCTION

                Reality therapy emphasizes that people are capable of changing their fate if they will live in reality. This therapy is not complicated and easy to understand unlike other therapy. It is simple yet not simplistic. The basis of this theory is on an explanation of brain functioning or control theory which accounts for human behavior. Based in the control theory, we act to an attempt to fulfill our current needs:  belonging, power, pleasure, freedom, and survival. Through the process of reality therapy, clients learn more about effective path to satisfy their needs.

Brief Biography

                William Glasser was born in Cleveland, Ohio on May 11, 1925. Little has been known about Glasser’s childhood but he described it as uneventful and happy. While still a student of Case Institute of technology, he married Naomi Judith Silver. After he graduated, his advisers rejected his dissertation. He gained admission to medical school at Western Reserve University. He began experimenting with the alternative treatment to the traditional psychoanalytic procedures.

View of Human nature

• Reality therapists first establish a warm and trusting relationship with their client. This is done to help clients evaluate choices they make to meet the basic needs that all humans have for belonging, power, freedom, and enjoyment.
• The view of human nature in reality therapy is that all needs are internal and that human beings act on the world purposefully to satisfy their needs and wants.
• An important element of choice theory is the notion that the brain stores need-satisfying images that serve as a guide to behavior. The five basic needs are survival, belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
• The goal of reality therapy is help people define their wants, evaluate their behaviors, and make concrete plans for fulfilling their needs.

MAJOR METHODS AND TECHNIQUES

·         Structuring

Ø  The counselor helps clients to adjust their expectations and gives them a realistic hope for change.

·         Confrontation

Ø   Confronted with present reality and eventually they will need to face the questions for the clients.

·         Contracts

Ø  Agreement signed by both the client and his/her therapist further reinforces a commitment to follow through. Contracts provides concrete evidence of their intention to change their behavior.

·         Instruction

Ø  The therapist should be competent so that they know how to teach or instruct the client in order to meet their goals.

·         Skillful Questioning

Ø  The therapist helps the clients to evaluate their behavior by asking a direct question.

·         Emphasizing Choice

Ø  The therpist help the clients by giving an options where the clients have a freedom to choice to live by their own standards.

·         Role Playing

Ø  Is a technique that presentizes clients’ behavior and allow them to rehearse the events that cause their anxiety. During a role-playing activity, clients learn to prepare for the consequences of their behavior, including their feelings while performing the activity.

·         Support

Ø  Once the clients see that their therapist encourages and supports them that he or she believes in them, their motivation and self-efficacy increases. Inevitably, the therapists trust and support communicates a sense of self-worth, and it is this growing feeling of being worthwhile that give clients more energy to live responsibly.

·         Constructive Debate

Ø  When therapist and clients challenge one another’s ideas and values, it demonstrates that they have values worth defending, that what they have to say is worthwhile and is taken seriously. Through constructive debate, clients learn they can contribute meaningfully to the therapeutic process.

·         Humor

Ø  Knowing that clients can be brought closer to reality through the therapeutic use of humor, the reality therapist occasionally uses humor in a sensitive manner. Used appropriately, humor can help clients gain a healthy ability to laugh at themselves- to become less introspective and more objective.

·         Self-Disclosure

Ø  Reality therapist share personal experiences and struggles and open themselves up to reveal their humanity, even to the point of questioning their own values or uncovering their own weaknesses.

·         Positive Addictions

Ø  Glasser encourages his clients to choose positive addictions that lead to more satisfactory ways living or anything that may help them reach a healthy high.

·         Assessment

Ø  Although the counselor in reality therapy makes little attempt to test, diagnose interpret, or otherwise assess clients, he or she evaluate their progress toward desired goals.

Application

          At the outset aspect of the therapy   it is crucial that the therapist must be involved, that he / she established a caring rapport within the context of a professional helping relationships and that the the therapist remain positive and emphasize the clients strength . client’s behavior is [presumed to be an  attempt at some point of control, a means of satisfying a want or need, the therapist then needs  to persuade them to  own up to what they are doing now. The client’s  not the therapist who must learn to evaluate their behavior to know whether what they are doing is helping their situation. Clients with failure identities are particularly reluctant to commit change. At this point the therapist will brook no excuses. The therapist needs to eliminate punishment, which usually involves another person controlling the clients lives. As we can see in the whole process of the therapist he had this courage to pursue the whole treatment. He never gives up instead his looking forward the possibility of change. The reality therapy is applied to a wide variety of clinical issues. It was used in different kinds of problem of the people. Here the essential issues in the therapy is on Glasser’s approach it has been illustrated in the case of pat a young, wealthy, overindulged satisfactorily married and has two children. As a therapist Glasser invested in Pat and he help her to become responsible for what she really wants., which is the reduction of her weight.          The therapist found hard in dealing with pat for her behavior but after a long run of therapy. This said therapy continuous slowly because Pat is not cooperating at some time. Pat rejected Glasser a number of times but he pursue and take a little effort to get the trust and respect from Pat. Eventuaslly in the process Pat learn to accept that only herself can make her responsible. After almost a yaer Glasser now point out Pat’s behavior that she neede to remove and that is being “irresponsible”. After Pat learn to be responsible she take a little chance to change. Pat felt a keener sense of achievement and she lost 50 pounds. In the therapy the client must understand that she only needs to accept her present situation and be open to changes to finally found acvhievements. The client are not ill they are just weak.

Submitted by BEED III-A:

Michelle Doong

Rachel Fraga

liezel Mundala

Jennifer Murao

Ryan Capucao