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International Journal of Psychiatry(IJP)

ISSN: 2475-5435 | DOI: 10.33140/IJP

Impact Factor: 1.85

The Mental and Emotional Tool Kit for Life: A Way to Give Psychology Away. Education that Can be Therapeutic. An Ounce of Prevention Worth Many Pounds of Cure

Abstract

Ray Mathis

I taught health education at the high school level for 33 years. It was my job to try to help my students prevent and avoid all those common problems and issues young people so often struggle with. I learned very early that the way we typically teach health education, by dispensing helpful information and advice, was never going to be as effective as I would like it to be. Actually, I learned this much earlier in my own family watching loved ones behave in ways they knew were unhealthy for them even when they knew better, or even after having suffered because they did.

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