Mood Management

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.

As a licensed psychologist, Dr. Langelier has worked in outpatient settings including Marriage & Family Therapy Institutes as well in inpatient chronic mental health facilities. She has also worked as a school counselor and full-time school psychologist. The work she did as an adjunct faculty member at Rivier University, teaching classes in the C.A.G.S. program in school psychology, opened the door to the position she now holds as full-time Professor and Director of Graduate Counseling & School Psychology Programs at Rivier. Her extensive and varied background has enabled her to give back to her current graduate students from a perspective of knowing that would not have been possible without the richness her professional path afforded her. Dr. Langelier received the Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology, which was presented to her at the 17th International Conference on College Teaching & Learning in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, April, 2006. She was also nominated for the NHCUC "ED"ies Award in March, 2011. Recent Publications1. NHSCA Annual Conference (2011) Presenter: Bullying & Brain Lock: How Oppressive Educational Environments Impair Learning2. ASCA Annual Conference (2008) Presenter: The Culturally Competent School Counselor3. CEC International Conference (2008) Presenter: The Culturally Competent Educator4. 17th International Conference on College Teaching & Learning (2006), Paper Presented: The Culturally Competent Professor: Our Role in Creating Community5. Langelier, C. (2006). The culturally competent professor: Our role in creating community. Rivier College Online Academic Journal, Volume 2, Number 1, Spring6. Connell, D. & Langelier, C. (2005). Understanding the emotional response to learning: Where brain based research and cognitive behavioral counseling strategies meet the road. Rivier College Online Academic Journal, Volume 1, Number 1, Fall7. Langelier, C. (2005). Mood management: A cognitive behavioral skills building program for adolescents. In G. Waltz & R. Yep (Eds), Vistas: Compelling perspectives in counseling (pp. 79-82), Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association8. Langelier, C. (2000). Mood management leader′s manual: A cognitive behavioral skills building program for adolescents. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.