Series Content Overview
"Best Friends" continues to introduce your students to the basic tenet of Cognitive Theory: that our feelings and behavior are directly related to what we think and believe.
It will also teach them to recognize the destructive nature of negative (irrational) self-talk and how to use The BeCool (Rational) Self-Talk Process to stay in control and to avoid Losing It!
Lesson Content Overview
"Best Friends" is about a common and often very painful kind of rejection, the rejection that occurs when best friends move apart. Interpersonal breakups are especially painful and difficult to deal with, and require a self-talk strategy that allows for grief to be experienced but does not promote "losing it" to depression or rage. The video illustrates one girl's practice of that kind of strategy.