A Japanese group has reported a virtual reality therapy for autistic children.
Virtual reality therapy has been successfully used to help people with:
Since fulfilling essential needs is part of a person's present life, reality therapy does not concern itself with a client's past.
In these ways reality therapy is very different from other forms of psychotherapy.
Doing is at the heart of reality therapy.
Control is a key issue in reality therapy.
Trying to control other people is a vain naive hope, from the point of view of reality therapy.
Practitioners of reality therapy may visit the past but never dwell on it.
There are several basic principles of reality therapy that must be applied to make this technique most successful.
In education, reality therapy can be used as a basis for the school's classroom management plan.