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In the next chapter, I’ll begin to show you some specific strategies for reconnecting with your teen. Hasn’t every confrontation and disagreement you’ve been having with your teenager accelerated this process? Is it unreasonable to ask yourself, wouldn’t it be better off to do whatever I can to reverse this process? Because, you know as well as I, unless you do something far different from what you’re doing now, this disconnection is going to get worse. What popped up were words I’m sure you recognize as you struggle to deal with your teenager disengaged, separated, uncoupled, disassociated, and withdrawn. To try to better describe this process, I typed the word disconnect into my computer’s thesaurus. “If you are having trouble with your teen, this is the result of a process that’s been occurring between you for a long time. When we fail in the effort to connect with other people, as Melvin surely has, we suffer because the need to do so is as much built into our genes as the need to survive.” – William Glasser, M.D.įor Parents & Teenagers-Dissolving the Barrier… To have any chance to lead a rewarding life, he, like all of us, needs at least one satisfying relationship. I believe he is choosing to obsess and compulse to deal with what is so obvious from the beginning of the film: He has no satisfying close relationships.

In the movie As Good as it Gets, the lead character, Melvin Udall, portrayed by Jack Nicolson, is a textbook illustration of what is known as the mental illness obsessive-compulsive disorder, over which he has no control.īut, following choice theory, I do not believe that Melvin is suffering from a mental illness or that he has no control over what he is doing. “… it is what you choose to do in a relationship, not what others choose to do, that is the heart of reality therapy.

(This is the re-titled paperback edition of Reality Therapy in Action). Counseling with Choice Theory: The New Reality Therapy

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