The Chicago Institute for
Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
presents
Learn how to help students meet and exceed
Illinois Social and Emotional Learning Standards
Learn how to
Enhance Student and Faculty Wellness
Maximize Student Achievement in Academics and Sports
FREE Speaking and Training for Schools
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There are five simple but important cognitive life skills we could and should be teaching all
our young people that we currently are not.  The ABC System teaches these five skills:
Becoming proficient in these five skills is called MENTAL and EMOTIONAL FITNESS.

There are some important pluses to starting to include these skills in the education students
now receive:
1)  Starting to teach these five skills would NOT require any new teachers, classes,
      or funds at a time when schools are struggling financially  
2)  It would be the quickest, cheapest and most effective way to target and do            
      something about the underlying causes of so much that goes wrong  
3)  It would be good for teachers and parents to learn and teach such skills.  It would  
      make them more effective, reduce their stress, and improve classroom and family
      harmony
To learn why they're important, and how to teach them, click on the tabs below
Page 2      The Problems. The Causes. The Solution
Page 3      Why Unconditional Self-Acceptance is Important
Page 4      Why Developing an Internal Locus of Control is so Important
Page 5      Recognizing Irrational Thinking
Page 6      Correcting Irrational Thinking
Page 7      The ABC Steps
Research has repeatedly shown that teaching people these life skills
The Chicago Institute for Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy

Is an affiliated training center for the Albert Ellis Institute for Rational Emotive Behavioral
Therapy in New York, NY  www.rebt.org   It is locate at 1699 Wall Street, Suite 112, Mount
Prospect, IL  It is co-directed by Terry London, M.S. and Dr. Paul Hauck, PhD.  It offers
graduate level training / certification in REBT through St. Xavier University  
                Possible Program Titles

1)   Raising Healthier, Happier and more Hopeful Children
2)   Become Mentally and Emotional Fit - Teaching your Children to be
3)   Teaching Resiliency Through Cognitive Restructuring
4)   Increasing Student Achievement through Life Skills Training
5)   Mental and Emotional Fitness for Students, Teachers and Parents
6)   Preventing Tobacco, Alcohol and Drug Use and Abuse
7)   Preventing Violence, Bullying and Other Problems
8)   Help Young People make Healthier Choices with Sex and Relationships
9)   Preventing Suicide in Young Adults
10)   Becoming a More Effective Parent / Teacher
11)   Eliminating the Daily Stresses of Being a Parent / Teacher
12)   Improving the Relationships in Your Life
13)   Eliminating School, Sport and Job Stress
14)   Feeling the Way You've Always Wanted to Feel
15)   Breaking Bad Habits - Starting to Behave in Healthier Ways
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Teaching students, teachers and parents to have
Mental and Emotional Fitness

Using the ABC System of Cognitive, Emotional and Behavioral
Self-Management and Self-Improvement
Based on the work of Dr. Albert Ellis
We are committed to encouraging the addition of these five important skills to the education
students now receive around our country, and encouraging the paradigm shift that may
need to occur in my fellow educators for that to happen.  That's why I am currently willing
to speak to teachers and students for FREE.  
Learn how to target the underlying causes of
Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drug Use and Abuse; Suicide
Violence, Intolerance, Bullying, Harassment; Obesity, Eating Disorders
Unintended Pregnancies, STDs; Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Anger Problems
Low Effort, Discipline Problems, Truancy, Dropping out
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1) To have Unconditional Self-Acceptance (USA) and Other Acceptance
2)  To evaluate their own thoughts, feelings and actions with respect to their goal
3)  To have an Internal Locus of Control
4)  To recognize and correct irrational thinking in themselves and others
5)  To approach any life event in a step-by-step fashion that allows them to get into
      the best possible cognitive and emotional place to make the healthiest possible
      choice for themselves and others
1)  Would free those young people who are to stop behaving in unhealthy and
      self-defeating ways
2)  Would help all students get in the best cognitive and emotional place to better
      access and act on helpful health advice and information and make the healthiest
      possible choices both now and in the future
3)  Would make students more ready, willing and able to learn, and able to function
      at levels they are capable of.