39th Annual Brigham Young University Counseling Workshop

Presenter: William Glasser, M.D.

Choice Theory: Explanations, Public Health Implications, and Applications for Creating a Happier Marriage

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March 6 and 7, 2008
Sponsored by the BYU Counseling and Career Center and BYU Conferences and Workshops

Program Description:

In this unique opportunity, attendees will be able to hear one of the world's best known psychiatrists, Dr. William Glasser, discuss his latest thinking on reality therapy and choice theory, and especially on how these ideas are applied to public mental health and quality relationships. He will point out that what those of us who work in mental health and education do is manage people, as much as counsel them.

He will also explain his latest ideas on quality relationships in counseling, teaching and managing, and show why many of the people we manage/counsel are unhappy. Unless we relate to them in a way that persuades them to increase the quality of their lives, we will have little chance to succeed in what we are attempting to do with them. This is especially applicable to problems that arise in marriage and he will explain how this can be done through a discussion of his books: Choice Theory, Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health, and Eight Lessons for a Happier Marriage. He will also show that these new, non-coercive ideas can be successfully applied to all aspects of working with people, in both counseling and schools.

Mrs. Glasser, a Senior Instructor in The William Glasser Institute joins her husband to demonstrate the theory and explain how to teach others the concepts of successful relationships using choice theory and not external control. She is an excellent teacher and counselor, and both, she and Dr. Glasser, work very effectively together not only in his speaking engagements but also in co-authoring at least 4 books including their recent book Eight Lessons for a Happier Marriage.

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