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Descriptor English: Reality Therapy
Descriptor Spanish: Terapia de la Realidad
Descriptor terapia de la realidad
Scope note: Método de tratamiento psicoterapéutico basado en la asunción de la responsabilidad del paciente de su propia conducta. El terapeuta guía activamente al paciente para precisar la autopercepción de la propia valía y del respeto de los demás. (Traducción libre: APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed.).
Descriptor Portuguese: Terapia da Realidade
Descriptor French: Thérapie de la réalité
Entry term(s): Reality Therapies
Therapies, Reality
Therapy, Reality
Tree number(s): F04.754.804
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011937
Scope note: Method of psychotherapeutic treatment based on assumption of patients' personal responsibility for their own behavior. The therapist actively guides patients to accurate self-perception for fulfillment of needs of self-worth and respect for others. (From APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed.)
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 74
History Note: 74
Entry Version: REALITY THER
DeCS ID: 12372
Unique ID: D011937
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Date Established: 1974/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1999/11/03
Reality Therapy - Preferred
Concept UI M0018548
Scope note Method of psychotherapeutic treatment based on assumption of patients' personal responsibility for their own behavior. The therapist actively guides patients to accurate self-perception for fulfillment of needs of self-worth and respect for others. (From APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed.)
Preferred term Reality Therapy
Entry term(s) Reality Therapies
Therapies, Reality
Therapy, Reality



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