Reality Therapy/Choice Theory Today: An Interview with Dr. Robert E. Wubbolding/Thérapie De la réalité/Théorie Du Choix Aujourd'hui : Une Entrevue Avec Dr. Robert E. Wubbolding

Dr. Robert E. Wubbolding serves as both the Director of the Center for Reality Therapy and as a senior faculty member for William Glasser International (Christensen & Gray, 2002). Personally appointed by Glasser to be the first Director of Training for the William Glasser Institute, he coordinated and monitored the Certification, Supervisor, and Instructor Training programs between 1988 and 2011. In addition, he is professor emeritus of Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, and faculty associate at John Hopkins University.In the area of reality therapy, he has written over 140 articles, essays, and chapters in textbooks. In addition, he has authored 13 books and published many DVDs on reality therapy. His books include the widely acclaimed Reality Therapy for the 21st Century, A Set of Directions for Putting and Keeping Yourself Together (Wubbolding, 2000) and Reality Therapy, published by the American Psychological Association (Wubbolding, 2011).Throughout his lifetime, Dr. Wubbolding has received many awards and accolades, including the Distinguished Alumnus Award, College of Education, University of Cincinnati (2002); Distinguished Graduate of the 1970s Decade, Department, College of Education, University of Cincinnati (2005); and the Gratitude Award for Initiating Reality Therapy in the United Kingdom from the Institute for Reality Therapy United Kingdom (2009). In 2009 he was also awarded the Certificate of Reality Therapy Psychotherapist by the European Association for Psychotherapy. In 2014, he was honoured as a Legend in Counseling by the American Association in Hawaii.In regards to Dr. Wubbolding, William Glasser, MD, founder of reality therapy, stated, is one of my closest and most trusted associates. I couldn't recommend anyone more highly. We now begin the interview:Klingler: Hi, Dr. Wubbolding. Thank you for taking the time to talk with us today. To start, what is choice theory and how does it differ from control theory?Wubbolding: My pleasure. First, let me explain what control theory is because it preceded choice theory. Control theory or control system theory is a theory of brain functioning that goes back a long time. There was a man named John von Neumann who was an associate of Albert Einstein in the 1930s who developed some of the rudiments of control theory (Isaacson, 2007). Other people contributed to the development over the years, and it's based on the fact that our brain is like a cybernetic system and, more recently, analogous to a computer. A better analogy for understanding is that our brain is like a torpedo or a rocket programmed to hit a target. When it gets off base or off its target, it gets what's called negative feedback to the source of power and corrects itself. That's called a negative input control system. Similar to that is a thermostat, which we describe as wanting the room at 72 degrees, and through its mechanism it perceives (this is all by analogy now) that the room is 74 degrees. It then sends out a signal to its cooling system to do something to that outside world to control it so that it can achieve its goal. When it perceives the room is not the temperature that it's supposed to be then it adjusts itself. So, that's an analogy that explains what a control system is and the control theory, or the control system theory, states that our brain functions something like that. It is activated to impact the world around us, so that we get the input or information that we seek, or the insight or the knowledge and information that is desired.William Powers (2005) wrote a book called Behavior: The Control of Perception, in which he further developed the theory stating that our behaviour, which is the output, controls our perceptions of the world, which is defined as how we view things. Glasser developed reality therapy in the early 1960s, but did not have a theory to validate it. He ran across a theory called control theory and thought that it validated the practice of reality therapy. …

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