This Have a Go Spaghettio! video is a review,
reminder that irrational BB thinking is unhelpful
thinking and this 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.
Irrational thinking is that which stops us getting the
results we desire or prefer. It dismisses or is
ignorant of 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 BB
belief we are not OK if others think otherwise is an
irrational perspective on the worth we apportion to
our ‘self,’ i.e., we are worthwhile because we exist
not because someone else says we are!
Some children will be constructing BB beliefs that
undermine their confidence and sense of agency
impacting their psychological resilience against
harmful and intrusive irrational thoughts.
The six Success Helper habits of thinking are
introduced to the children via the Have a Go
Spaghettio! approach to building psychological
resilience and wellbeing. REBT’s ABC Theory of
Emotional Disturbance is its foundation theory,
which helps children understand that their belief
constructions can be helpful or unhelpful.
BB believing is Success Stopper thinking which is
irrational and unhelpful thinking causing BB
feelings and actions. Using the Have a Go
Spaghettio! approach will empower our children to
act in confidence, because they will learn to accept
themselves unconditionally which is ‘I’m
worthwhile crocodile’ thinking.
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| Dr. Albert Ellis |
