Glasser's Choice Theory and Purkey's Invitational Education--Allied Approaches to Counseling and Schooling.
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: author's own professional life as a psychologist, counselor, teacher and special educator (as well as his personal life) has benefited beyond measure by his association with two illustrious William's-William Glasser, M. D. and William Watson Purkey, Ed. D. In gratitude, this similarity of their two perspectives is presented. The most difficult problems are human relationship problems. Technical problems such as landing a man on the moon, are child's play compared to persuading all students like John [who chooses to do nothing] to start working hard in school or helping all unhappily married couples to improve their marriages. Difficult as they may be to solve, however, relationship problems are surprisingly easy to understand. They are all some variation of 'I don't like the way you treat me, and even though it may destroy my life or your life, or both our lives, this is what I am going to do about it,' (Glasser, 1997, p, 598) Whether a self-perceptio n is psychologically healthy or unhealthy, beneficial or lethal, people cling to their learned self-perceptions, as a drowning person clings to a straw, and act accordingly. It took a long time for people to get where they are, it will take time for them to change. As we explained earlier, it is important for helpers to hold their point, (Purkey, 1990, p,17)
Author: Roger D. Zeeman
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2109711981