Ray Mathis
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McHenry, Illinois, United States
About the store
1) 33 years teaching health education full-time at the freshman level
2) Motivational-Educational speaker representing the Chicago Institute for Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
3) State and national convention presenter in health education, and counseling since 2007
4) Adjunct professor for International Renewal Institute - St. Xavier University consortium since 2010: REBT related classes for teachers
5) Teacher and student trainer in the "Mental and Emotional Tool Kit for Life"; high schools and colleges/universities
6) "Tool Time" group leader for troubled and troublesome students
7) Certified Paramedic, McHenry County MICU program
8) Paramedic instructor, McHenry Country MICU program
9) Professional large format landscape photographer
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I'll Just Die If He Breaks Up With Me
The Missing Defensive Game Plan
In Health Education
The helpful advice and information we give young people is very much like an offensive game plan in team sports. It’s what we want young people to think, think about, and say and do in some crucial situations where important behavioral and lifestyle choices need to be made. The problem is we don’t give them a defensive game plan against what Dr. Albert Ellis called “automatic irrational beliefs” that pop into their minds at crucial times, and
9th - 12th
Health, School Counseling
How Teens Put Pressure on Themselves to Have Sex
One of the most important things we can do for young people is to help them develop an internal locus of control. Locus of control stands for where they see their feelings as coming from, what they see as the cause of them. Most people have an external locus of control, and wrongly believe that what happens, and what others say and do, or that might and they might, causes how they feel. Those things don’t. They are just all either real or imagined events in our lives. It’s what we think abo
9th - 12th
Health, School Counseling
Dealing with Drunken Friends Dialogue
One of the most common mistakes teens make is to get into a car with friends who have been drinking. This activity gives a student a list of I Messages that could be used in a situation like that to tactfully but assertively refuse to go with friends. It includes a dialogue form on which students can practice responding to provocative comments. In addition to asserting themselves, it also is an example of "putting their behavior where we want their attitude to be" By saying these things, or
9th - 12th
Health
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About the store
Experience
1) 33 years teaching health education full-time at the freshman level
2) Motivational-Educational speaker representing the Chicago Institute for Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
3) State and national convention presenter in health education, and counseling since 2007
4) Adjunct professor for International Renewal Institute - St. Xavier University consortium since 2010: REBT related classes for teachers
5) Teacher and student trainer in the "Mental and Emotional Tool Kit for Life"; high schools and colleges/universities
6) "Tool Time" group leader for troubled and troublesome students
7) Certified Paramedic, McHenry County MICU program
8) Paramedic instructor, McHenry Country MICU program
9) Professional large format landscape photographer
Awards & shining teacher moments
Lead article in the May-June 1997 issue of the Journal of Health Education on an REBT based approach to health education entitled "The ABC System of Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Self-Management and Self-Improvement"
My own education history
B.S. Health Education, University of Illinois 1974
M.A. Curriculum and Instruction, Concordia University 1990
75 post graduate hours in counseling
30 of those hours in Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
Primary Certification in REBT
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