This video is another look at
setting up the Have a Go Spaghettio! Success Helper classroom. It offers
classroom strategies that help to acquaint children with the think, feel, do
connection a la Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. Give it a try banana pie!
The Success Helper Well Being Framework has been adopted by many schools in
Australia. It embodies the thinking and ideas of Dr. Albert Ellis who created
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. His ABC Theory of Emotional Disturbance is
a counselling paradigm used universally to help people navigate their way
through life. Ellis' therapeutic approach to wellbeing, mental health
promotion/education is influenced by Stoic philosophy, Alfred Korzybski's
General Semantics theory, Bertrand Russell's ideas and many more who teach that
thinking, feeling, and behaving are all interconnected. The Success Helper Well
Being Framework teaches children that they have the potential to manage their
extreme and often self-defeating emotions/behaviours successfully, if they
learn how these are influenced by their habits of thinking - their perceptions
and assessments of what's happening around them. Unconditional self-acceptance
is taught via the Framework which demonstrates to children that they are always
worthwhile no matter what. In other words, their intrinsic value/worth cannot
be taken away by failure or criticism of others; they are always worthwhile.
This kind of headset or habit of thinking/believing is a kind of psychological
resilience that protects them against psychological harm. e.g. To firmly
believe that 'I am not your opinion of me' expresses the deep and firm
understanding that an opinion of another does not/cannot define their whole
being. It is irrational to think this way. Jonas Salk, who discovered the polio
vaccine is known to have said how useful it would be if we could
psychologically immunise ourselves against psychological harm. Unconditional
self-acceptance certainly helps children deal with challenges of failure and
rejection in a way that helps them keep their positive sense of self intact so
they can rally through the tough times and
Professor Sam Vaknin is an authority on narcissistic personality disorder. His videos are informative and well communicated which helped my understanding of this condition. A narcissists 'feed' dries up when the supply of others adulation and affirmation withers and stops. A crisis ensues when the narcissist realises that incoming approval has diminished and their idealised self is under attack. The contrived and carefully constructed 'self' is no longer acknowledged and valued by external sources. They cease 'to be' because the sources feeding their self sees through the narcissists grandiose and phony veneer. The self they have concocted and which demands the positive regard and affirmation of those they have trained to adore them, is but an irrational virtual representation of the real world. There's a disparity between the narcissists version of reality and how things really are, projecting a world of fantasy replayed on a loop inside their heads, feedi...
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