Asian philosophies tend to emphasize
a. cognitions.
b. experience.
c. logic.
d. objectivity.
Question 2
In your work as a reality therapist with a 14-year-old conduct-disordered adolescent, all she seems to do is complain profanely about the raw deal she has gotten from her parents, siblings, teachers, and the police. She is quite invested in blaming others for her current situation. In addition to attempting to establish a personal and supportive therapeutic relationship, what would you want to do next?
a. Help her make a plan for changing her behavior and committing to it.
b. Explore her past experiences of having gotten a raw deal and what that has meant to her.
c. Confront her with value judgments about her behavior and its likelihood of continued failure.
d. Help her to evaluate her present behavior and decide whether it is hurting herself and/or others.