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ABCs and 123s

[DISCLAIMER] In the United States (U.S.), “ABCs and 123s” refers to the fundamental building blocks of early childhood education, regarding the English (a Latin-script) alphabet (i.e., A, B, C…) for reading and literacy, and Hindu-Arabic numeral system (1, 2, 3…) for counting and basic math. Although I learned my ABCs and 123s at a young age, it wasn’t until adulthood that I was taught of another use for these fundamental building blocks of mental, emotional, and behavior

Deric Hollings

Oct 1312 min read

Girl Dads and Wife Guys: Care, Custody, and Control vs. Agency and Ownership

[DISCLAIMER] I Was Once a Girl Dad, Wife Guy, and Feminist When serving in the United States Marine Corps (1996-2007), I met a female Marine (i.e., woman) who was physically separated from her male Marine husband (i.e., man). Together, they had a daughter (i.e., girl) who was six-months-old at the time when I first met her. After finalizing her divorce, the woman proposed to me and I accepted her hand in marriage (2002). Thus, her daughter became my stepdaughter. Althou

Ask Albert Ellis

Deric Hollings

Oct 1025 min read

Retroactive Revocation of Consent: Regret Isn’t Tantamount to Sexual Assault and Rape

[DISCLAIMER] Ain’t No Fun (If the Homies Can’t Have None) – Sexual Assault and Rape When I was in high school, rapper Snoop Dogg released his debut album Doggystyle (1993), which turned out to be a subjectively phenomenal joint serving as a soundtrack to the later portion of my sophomore year. It was a quintessential West Coast hip hop and g-funk classic! Noteworthy, the anthology contained the track “Ain’t No Fun (If the Homies Can’t Have None)” which featured the late

Hip Hop and REBT

Deric Hollings

Oct 820 min read

Emotional Appeals and Social Contagion

[DISCLAIMER] I view many events through the proverbial lens of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), as I’ll provide a psychoeducational lesson that involves thinking and believing which is rational (in accordance with both logic and reason), or not (i.e., irrational), as it regards REBT herein. Here, “logic” is the interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable, and “reason” is a statement offered in explanation or justification.

Logical Fallacies

Deric Hollings

Oct 613 min read

Between a Cock and a Hard Place: It’s All Men Until It’s No Men

[DISCLAIMER] All Men I occasionally write about my lived experienced pertaining to graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work (SSW), regarding the University of Texas (UT) at Austin (2012-2014). For example, I stated in Woke: These Bitches Are Crazy!: I was told that all males (i.e., boys and men) were oppressors, maintained privileges not afforded to females (i.e., girls and women), and that members of my sex (i.e., male) and gender (i.

Deric Hollings

Oct 425 min read

Due Process: Too Much Power

[DISCLAIMER] When practicing Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), I often make use of linguistics, which the American Psychological Association (APA) defines as “the scientific study of the physical, structural, functional, psychological, and social characteristics of human language.” Thus, I also dabble in semantics, which the APA defines as “in linguistics, the study of meaning in language, as opposed to the study of formal relationships (grammar) or sound systems

Deric Hollings

Jul 1017 min read

Subjectivity of Consequences

[DISCLAIMER] Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) uses the ABC model to demonstrate how irrational beliefs lead to unpleasant...

Deric Hollings

Jan 25, 20244 min read

Females, too

[DISCLAIMER] Today, I came across an article in which Pamela Anderson claimed, “I had a babysitter and my parents thought she was a great...

Deric Hollings

Feb 2, 20234 min read