William Glasser

People are driven by 6 basic needs.

• Survival
  

• Power

• Love







• Belonging






• Freedom






• Fun

By understanding the the drives for the 6 basic needs, we become more conscious of the need for our world to be a quality worlds of our choosing.

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The 10 Axioms of Choice Theory

1. The only person whose behavior we can control is our own.
   





2. All we can give another person is information
   





3. All long-lasting psychological problems are relationship problems.
   





4. The problem relationship is always part of our present life.
   





5. What happened in the past has everything to do with what we are today, but we can only satisfy our basic needs right now and plan to continue satisfying them in the future.
   





6. We can only satisfy our needs by satisfying the pictures in our Quality World.
   





7. All we do is behave.
   





8. All behaviors are Total Behaviors and are made up of four components: acting, thinking, feeling and physiology. All Total Behaviors are chosen, but we only have direct control over the acting and thinking components.
   





9. We can only control our feeling and physiology indirectly through how we choose to act and think.
   





10. All Total Behavior is designated by verbs and named by the part that is the most recognizable

http://raider.muc.edu/~schnelpl/Control%20Theory%20-%20Overhead.html

The 7 Caring Habits
1) Supporting;
2) Encouraging;
3) Listening;
4) Accepting;
5) Trusting;
6) Respecting; and
7) Negotiating differences,

The 7 Deadly Habits
1) Criticizing;
2) Blaming;
3) Complaining;
4) Nagging;
5) Threatening;
6) Punishing; and
7) Bribing or rewarding to control

http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Glasser,_William

Glasser is notable for developing a cause and effect theory that explains human behaviour. His ideas focus on personal choice, personal responsibility and personal transformation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Glasser

Reality Therapy

Reality Therapy focuses on the here-and-now and how to create a better future, instead of concentrating at length on the past. It emphasizes making decisions, and taking action and control of one's own life.

Reality Therapy is a considered a Cognitive behavioural approach to therapy; that is, it focuses on becoming aware of, and if necessary, change, his/her thoughts and actions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Therapy

Glasser is very important in trying to understand how and why children behave the way, they behave. Glasser’s research shows that children have needs that need to be filled before they can start acting and behaving the way that you as a teacher want them to behave. Glasser’s work is very important to me because it shows that children do not just act out for the sake of acting out, they feel threatened, un-loved etc… There is always a reason for the way people act and I think his work helps us learn how to deal with students who have a problem and we can make them feel better and they then get something out of the lesson. Eventually they start to enjoy coming to class and learning and this makes my job as that teacher easier and more enjoyable, the class tends to then enjoy coming, learning, and they get results from this class. Glasser’s theory focuses on personal responsibility, personal choice, and personal transformation; it is all about the person and the choices they make. It gives control to the person and makes the students take responsibility for their own behaviour. Much like his other theory Reality Therapy, this focuses on how to create a better future instead of concentrating on the past. It emphasizes making decisions and taking action and control of one’s own life. Once again emphasizing the importance of people taking responsibility for their own actions and behaviour. This is very important when it comes to teaching, you can mould and tell students behaviour, but you can’t control it.