EP05 Workshop 34 - A New Leadership Role for Mental Health Professionals - William Glasser, M.D.
The leadership role in mental health has been assumed by psychiatrists who diagnose mental illnesses that do not exist and treat them with potentially harmful brain drugs. Dr. Glasser will explain that mental health separate from mental illness does exist if we could change from the mental illness model to a new public health model based on mental health. This will allow psychotherapists to assume a leadership role they don't have now.
Dialogue 11 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 2005 - Mental Health
Featuring Albert Ellis, PhD, and William Glasser, MD
Moderated by Bernhard Trenkle, Dipl. Psych
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Supervision Panel 04 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 2005
Featuring William Glasser, MD; Marsha Linehan, PhD; and Michele Weiner-Davis, MSW
Moderated by Bernahrd Trenkle, Dipl. Psych
Topical Panel 03 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 2005 - The Goal of Therapy
Featuring William Glasser, MD; Harriet Lerner, PhD; Francine Shapiro, PhD; and Thomas Szasz, MD
Moderated by Ellyn Bader, PhD
Topical Panel 11 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 2005 - Role of the Therapist/Role of the Client
Featuring Claudia Black, PhD; William Glasser, MD; Salvador Minuchin, MD; and Ernest Rossi, PhD
Moderated by Brent Geary, PhD
Educational Objectives:
To describe the use of the new reality therapy in counseling.
To describe a therapist mode that talks to a client in terms of mental health.
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Historically, psychotherapists have worked with individuals, small groups, large groups and organizations. We have moved from treating pathology to facilitating personal growth to expanding public consciousness. A next step is the life-long guidance of congregations of people. With religion as a precedent, and large group formation as an instrument, Dr. Polster will show how we may address the everyday, non-pathological needs of the community at large, spelling out some of these procedures and their theoretical underpinnings.
Dr. Glasser will explain that there is such as entity as mental health and will define it in such a way that it is completely separated from what is now called mental illness and collected in the DSM-IV. He believes that by using Choice Theory, clients can be taught how to improve their own mental health. By doing this the medical model is no longer needed and should be replaced by a public health model.
Dr. Glasser has moved away from the DSM-IV and the medical model. He does not believe that any of the mental illnesses diagnosed in the DSM-IV actually exist because none of them are associated with pathology in the brain. By using Choice Theory he has moved from the medical school model to the public health model to show how counselors can deliver mental health more effectively than psychiatrists are doing now and at a fraction of what we are now spending.