Depending on one's viewpoint, reality therapy can be seen as enhancing the power of women to control their lives or thwarting them in trying to attain control.
In working with battered women, Whipple(1985) states that abused women are not able to meet their needs for belonging, power, freedom, and fun and that their survival needs are threatened. Whipple(1985) shows how the procedures that make up reality therapy can be applied to battered women in helping them meet their basic needs.
From a feminist therapist therapy perspective, Ballou(1984) points out that in holding individuals responsible for their behavior, historical and social discrimination is ignored