‘Shouldhood' causes upset or increases the intensity of what, Albert Ellis calls, our ‘upsetness.’ The degree of ‘upsetness’ caused by our tendency to think in ‘shoulds’ is what Ellis also calls ‘shithood:’ ‘shouldhood’ leads to ‘shithood ‘ psychologically speaking. Sometimes we might ‘should’ and stop and rethink our ‘shoulding’ reminding ourselves that to demand we should get something we can’t get is futile. So, we recalibrate, shift our thinking to a more logical, rational posture. However, if we indulge in ‘should’ thinking on a more permanent basis, where we continue to demand that things should, absolutely be as we demand they should be, then ‘shithood’ is where we end up until we understand how thinking effects how we feel and behave. The world is no good, others are no good and/or you are no good equals ‘SHITHOOD!” ‘Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so.’ Shakespeare (Hamlet) The Have a Go S...
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