Helping Latter-day Saints Be Prepared to Minister to Those Who Struggle with Mental Health
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What is the role of leaders in helping individuals who struggle with mental health?
Many leaders feel uncertain about how they can help an individuals who is deeply troubled by mental health. What if I say the wrong thing? I am not a therapist so maybe there isn't anything to talk about.
The reality is, we simply need to gain a deeper level of empathy in order to help encourage these individuals to not only progress in life but find valuable help with their mental help by engaging in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
By listening to experts we can better understand the issue. By listening to individuals who have experienced a struggle with mental health we can better understand what it is like trying to find growth and happiness in our Latter-day Saint communities.
What You'll Learn During the Summit
Glenn Schiraldi, PhD
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and how they cause wounds that people carry into adulthood
- Helping members find an appropriate therapist and encouraging them to reach for God as the ultimate attachment figure
- Big-T trauma and small-t trauma and common ways Latter-day Saints try to cope
Timothy B. Smith, Kristin Lang Hansen, Michael E. Berrett
THERAPIST PANEL
- The dynamics between church leaders and therapists
- The role of a therapist regarding their clients' beliefs and values
- Working with members who are struggling with a faith crisis or other church issues
Jacob Hess, PhD
- How to restore hope into the mental health dialogue
- The danger of "fixing" mental illness too soon rather than explore the causes
- How the Gospel of Jesus Christ can help serve as the greatest mental health intervention in the world
Jody Moore
- 5 tools for leaders and parents to help youth be mentally healthy
- Ways to minimize shame in order to encourage spiritual wellbeing
- How to help individuals sit with their feelings rather than flee from them
Geoff Steurer
- Why community is crucial for mental health stability
- How we can better stimulate community through our ward & church community
- The predicting power of relationships in individual mental health healing
Bonnie Young
- How can we minister to children with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)
- How we unintentionally encourage ADHD children to act out in Primary
- How to conform the environment rather than conform the ADHD child
Jeffrey Reber, PhD
- How we can better stimulate community through our ward & church community
- The impact of narcissism in our religious communities
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Understanding what it means to be "favored of God"
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