Mood Management
A Cognitive-Behavioral Skills-Building Program for Adolescents; Skills Workbook
- Carol A. Langelier - Rivier College, Nashua, NH
Mood Management is a skills-building program designed to help adolescents learn to effectively manage difficult emotions such as anger, depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. On the basis of cognitive behavioral counseling theory. It stresses the importance of practicing the skills introduced in each unit of the Skills Workbook to achieve and maintain emotional wellness.
Skills Workbook is primarily written from the perspective of a classroom guidance or group-counseling program, clinicians can easily adapt the information in the Skills Workbook to facilitate individual therapy. The workbook contains transparency, which provides visual references to help the adolescent.