This Have a Go Spaghettio! video is a review,
reminder that rational BF thinking can be taught
explicitly in the teaching and learning context.
Albert Ellis, creator of Rational Emotive Behaviour
Therapy, says the future of psychotherapy is in the
school system. With the Have a Go approach, it has
arrived in early childhood learning.
Rational thinking is that which helps us get the
results we desire or prefer. It accommodates the
reality that sometimes we may not get what we
strongly desire to have; people to like us, to do well
at tasks, reach our goals. This needn’t be
catastrophic unless we believe it to be. The BF
belief we are OK even if others think otherwise is a
rational perspective on the worth we apportion to
our ‘self,’ i.e., we are worthwhile because we exist
not because someone else says we are!
We can help children develop this habit of thinking
so it becomes intuitive, automatic, and deeply held.
Some children will be constructing such a belief
others may not be but psychological resilience
against harmful and intrusive irrational thoughts
depend on this type of belief
construction.
So give it a try banana pie!
No comments:
Post a Comment