Reality Therapy Essay

reward so they could keep up the behavior and join the “big kid club” and stop wearing pull-ups. With concrete reinforcement, it would give them the ability to learn and modify their behaviors basing on the situational and environmental factors.
The other form of reinforcement is social reinforcement, which I would use for older children. I would constantly use verbal acknowledgement and positive statements they’ve completed their school projects, assignments, chores, and so on forth. One of my recent babysitting experiences that I’ve use that approach was with a middle school child who was excited to begin her school project on seal pups. However, it wasn’t due for another few weeks while she have require day-to-day assignments to complete. …show more content…
Additionally, it could cause a conflict of what would be considered as a rational reality. My perception of reality could interfere wit h her rational form of reality. However, in the end, Annie has managed to gain control of her temper and improved her behavior greatly. That’s a good outcome of the Reality Therapy from her situation. Those two ethical issues have comes to mind when using the application of Reality Therapy as a …show more content…
While, Behavioral Theory approach could be suitable for anybody at any ages. However, some takes longer than others. It’s ideal to use Behavioral Theory approach on children because they’re still constantly learning and doesn’t exactly solidify their behavior, which make easier to learn a particular behavior and make it become recurrent. Much older children and adults would most likely have their own solid form of behavior and it’s usually more complicated to unlearned the behavior that would be considered as inappropriate or irrelevant to the situational factor than to learn a new behavior. Therefore, that’s why I think Behavior Theory application is more suitable for younger