Mental and Emotional Health: Understanding Emotions

Discussion iconDiscussion: Managing Emotions

Group of young people talking outside and feeling happy hanging out with one another
Feeling happy hanging out with one another

Go back and review the sections on managing emotions (Steps One, Two, and Three). Now, using your notes, your knowledge of defense mechanisms, and your DECIDE Model experience, post a response to the Discussion: Managing Emotions link detailing an emotion of your choice. Include in your post:

  1. A full description of the emotion: which emotion, what its characteristics or signs are, and how many people tend to express it.
  2. A fictional example scenario in which someone inappropriately expresses the emotion.
  3. Some possible defense mechanisms the person in your example may experience in relation to the emotion.
  4. Three suggestions, stated in your own words, for how the person may appropriately and healthfully manage his or her emotion.

Then, respond to one other student’s thread, detailing how you might have handled the scenario similarly or differently, and why.

For information on how this assignment will be graded, please view the discussion rubric in the Orientation module.