Robert E. Wubbolding, EdD, internationally known teacher, author and practitioner of Reality Therapy has taught Choice Theory and Reality Therapy in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. His contributions to the theory and practice include the ideas of "Positive Symptoms," "The Cycle of Counseling," "Five Levels of Commitment," and others. He has also expanded significantly the Procedure of "evaluation." He has written over 125 essays and chapters in text books as well as ten books and published seven videos on Reality Therapy including the widely acclaimed books Reality Therapy for the 21st Century, Understanding Reality Therapy, Counselling with Reality Therapy and Employee Motivation. His busy professional life includes Professor Emeritus of Xavier University and director of the Center for Reality Therapy. He is Senior Faculty for The William Glasser Institute in Los Angeles and personally appointed by Dr. Glasser to be the first Director of Training for the Institute. In this position he coordinates and monitors the Certification, Supervisor, and Instructor Training programs. Formerly he served as consultant to the drug and alcohol abuse programs of the U.S. Army and Air Force. He was a group counselor at a Halfway House for Women, and Elementary and Secondary School Counselor, a High School Teacher, and a Teacher of Adult Basic Education. For two years he taught for the University of Southern California in their overseas programs in Japan, Korea, and Germany. He is a Psychologist, a Professional Clinical Counselor, and a member of the American Psychological Association, the Ohio Psychological Association, the Cincinnati Academy for Professional Psychology, as well as the American Counseling Association, and the Ohio Counseling Association, Greater Cincinnati Counseling Association. He has received the Marvin Rammelsberg Award presented to a person in a helping profession who best exemplifies the qualities of friendship, brotherhood, and humanitarianism, and who displays exemplary leadership qualities and made outstanding contributions to professional organizations. He received the Herman J. Peters award for exemplary leadership to promote the profession of counseling and the Greater Cincinnati Counseling Association unique Recognition of Merit Award. He also received the Mary Corre Foster award for exemplifying qualities of leadership within the counseling profession and promoting the standards of excellence within the profession and the University of Cincinnati College of Education Outstanding Alumnus Award. His professional goal has been to make Reality Therapy respectable, respected, practical, cross-cultural, and universally applicable. To achieve this goal, he has sought to strengthen the delivery system, publish chapters, articles, and books, taught Choice Theory and Reality Therapy in many countries, and developed Reality Therapy as the WDEP system. This expression of Reality Therapy facilitates both learning and practicing the skills individually, in groups, on an organizational basis by people in North America and around the world working in agencies, schools, and businesses. |