Course

Strategies for Emotional Management

~15 Hours

While we are familiar with emotions and their significance in our daily lives, we might not be as fully aware of how emotions actually work, how best to manage them in a healthy manner, and optimal ways to support others in emotional crises. In Strategies for Emotional Management, you will take a deep dive into the most effective skills and practices that psychologists use to help people gain healthy mastery of their emotions.

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David C. Wang
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About This Course

While we are familiar with emotions and their significance in our daily lives, we might not be as fully aware of how emotions actually work, how best to manage them in a healthy manner, and optimal ways to support others in emotional crises. In Strategies for Emotional Management, you will take a deep dive into the most effective skills and practices that psychologists use to help people gain healthy mastery of their emotions. 

Learning Outcomes:

  • Apply the Wise Mind framework and practices to challenging ministry situations and to enhance the emotional health of your leadership
  • Develop self-awareness of how emotions operate in your life in order to grow your competence in emotional regulation
  • Engage with Distress Tolerance strategies so that you can effectively respond to crisis situations

 

This course is the recommended second course in the Certificate of Emotional Health in Ministry. 

A FULLER Equip course

  • Mental & Emotional Health
  • Lead Pastor
  • Administration
  • Professional Training

Introduction

1. Getting Started

Emotional Regulation

2. Regulating Emotions

3. How-to Guide of Emotional Self-Regulation

4. Growing in Emotional Self-Regulation

Wise Mind

5. Wise Mind: The Best of Reason and Emotion

6. The “What” Skills of the Wise Mind

7. The “How” Skills of Wise Mind, Part 1

8. The “How” Skills of Wise Mind, Part 2

Distress Tolerance

9. Crisis Situations

10. Crisis Tools, Part 1

11. Crisis Tools, Part 2

12. Suicidality

Conclusion

13. Next Steps

Your Instructor

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David C. Wang

Cliff and Joyce Penner Chair for the Formation of Emotionally Healthy Leaders

David Wang is a licensed psychologist, pastor, editor of the Journal of Psychology and Theology, and serves on the editorial board for the APA journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice. In 2022, he joined Fuller’s faculty as the Cliff and Joyce Penner Chair for the Formation of Emotionally Healthy Leaders. His research interests include trauma and traumatic stress, spiritual formation and spiritual theology (with special interest in the experience of the spiritual desert), and various topics related to multicultural psychology, peace, and justice.

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