Mood Management Leader′s Manual

Adolescence is a confusing time: it can be compared to a roller coaster ride, so many highs and lows, twists and turns. It is a time when important decisions must be made, but these are hard to make when one is coping with the emotional turmoil of adolescence: Are you a child? Are you an adult? What is your identity?

Author and licensed psychologist Carol Langelier has developed a program that guides adolescents through this difficult developmental stage. The Mood Management: A Cognitive-Behavioral Skills Building Program for Adolescents, and its accompanying participant′s Skills Workbook teach adolescents how to deal with their emotions by understanding what triggers the thoughts, behaviors, feelings, and physical responses that create conflict. Through a comprehensive seven-step program, this process demonstrates how to resolve self-conflict and create and maintain behavior change.

Designed to be used in classroom guidance programs as well as individual or group counseling, the Mood Management program provides adolescents with an opportunity to help one another "steer clear" of emotional traffic jams. The Leader′s Manual is a valuable asset to the program, providing a brief introduction to the program, the Skills Workbook, answers questions, provides masters for transparencies that can be used as visual aid, and a guide for the transparencies. The Leader′s Manual together with the Skills Workbook will make a complete program ready for counselors.

The Mood Management program is perfect for two different audiences. Counselors at the middle and high school level will find it useful in either their curriculum or as a training for students who have been designated as having behavior problems. The second group is social workers and counselors who do group work with adolescents.

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.