Wassup? Ms Withers Mr P’s been thinking about Ms. Smithers and her work with children in the early childhood setting. As a Rational Emotive Behaviour Educator, she is keen that her young charges understand that their thinking is connected to how they feel and act. She does this via the Have a Go Spaghettio! pedagogy, which is based on Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT). REBT provides the counselling paradigm used by counsellors and psychotherapists to help people identify the unhelpful and self-defeating habits of thinking that undermine their progress in life and living. It is called: The ABC Theory of Emotional Disturbance . Mr P. wants to find out how the Have a Go Spaghettio! approach addresses the issue of bullying in schools. He asks her to explain how she and her Have a Go Spaghettio! colleagues address bullying at her school. Ms Smithers explains. According to REBT , the ‘bully’ does not or may not show respect to others in ways that cause the victim ext...
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy was developed by Dr. Albert Ellis in the 1950's. Educators are beginning to rethink how they address behaviour in schools. Slowly we are appreciating that if students are to learn how to better manage themselves emotionally and behaviourally more successfully then REBT has a lot to offer through RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOUR EDUCATION