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The Quality School: Managing Students without Coercion
William Glasser, M.D. is an American psychiatrist born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1925, and developer of Reality Therapy and Choice Theory. He is notable for having developed a cause and effect theory that explains human behavior. Educated at Case Western Reserve University (Ohio, U.S.), where he received a B.S in 1945 and a M.A. in clinical psychology in 1948. He received his M.D. in 1953 and completed a psychiatric residency between 1954 and 1957 at UCLA and at the Veterans Administration Hospital of Los Angeles. He was board-certified in psychiatry in 1961. The University of San Francisco awarded Dr. Glasser an honorary degree in 1990. In 2003 he received the American Counseling Association's Professional Development Award; in 2004, the ACA's "A Legend in Counseling Award;" in 2005 the Master Therapist designation by the American Psychotherapy Association and the Life Achievement Award by the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology. Glasser also authored 20 published books one in which was: “The Quality School”, Managing Students without Coercion 2nd expanded edition which was published in 1925.
Glasser views human nature as survival or self-preservation, a way of dealing with life, such as: love and belonging, power, freedom, or pleasure. Glasser states” each of these help the human species thrive in distinct ways.” “Strengths of all five needs is said to be fixed at birth and does not change.” The Quality School" was sub-titled "Managing Students without Coercion" and this reflected an important new theme in Glasser's thought, coercion being the opposite of everything he taught. His Reality Therapy had always recognized the individual's own responsibility for his or her life. In "Stations of the Mind" and "Control Theory" he elaborated on the full meaning of internal control. In "Control Theory" (chapter eleven) he spoke of an alternative explanation of human behavior, one...

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