Sito di Mario Di Pietro
How
to Prevent and Treat Children's Psychological Difficulties
In recent years, research has focused more and more on the relation between
cognition and emotions. The new elementary school programs underscore the influence
of emotional factors on the learning process and indicate the necessity to
promote the development of the whole personality, not simply the cognitive
dimension.
As
psychological research has shown, reason and emotions are not completely
separate functions. Thought can interact with emotions and modify them. In
particular, it is has been shown that irrational thinking can produce and
exacerbate negative emotions. One of the psychologists who have contributed
the most to this field of study is Albert Ellis. He is the initiator of RET
(Rational-Emotive Therapy) that the present book describes.
Mario
Di Pietro
Psychologist, psychotherapist and counselor. He studies the emotional and
behavioral problems in children's development. He specialized as a Supervisor
at the Institute of Rational-emotive Therapy in New York. with Edizioni Erickson,
he has published and co-authored, among others, Anxiety Treatment in
Schools (1995),
Rational-Emotive Education (2003, 9th ed.) and Think Positive:
How to Develop Rational and Emotional Thinking (2004)