“Mood Management” Training Workshop at Amman Arab University
The Deanship of Student Affairs/Department of Counseling and Psychological Services, in cooperation with the College of Educational and Psychological Sciences/Department of Psychological and Educational Counseling at Amman Arab University, implemented a training workshop entitled “Mood Management,” which aimed to teach students strategies for managing mood and ways to deal with it, and targeted university students at the B.A and M.A levels Masters, graduates and the local community.
At the beginning of the workshop, Professor. Khalid Bani Hamdan, Dean of Student Affairs, welcomed Professor. Suhaila Banat, the workshop trainer, and the attendees, praising the readiness of the College of Educational and Psychological Sciences, represented by its Dean, Dr. Wafa Al-Eid, and the college’s teaching staff, for such cooperation to raise awareness among students, which reflects positively on the university environment and society, since it has a significant impact on developing individuals’ relationships and achieving their goals and ambitions.
The workshop dealt with introducing the concept of mood, talking about the methods that are used to deal with a person who is in a bad mood, and reviewing and training participants on many strategies, which were classified into: effective in managing mood and ineffective, in addition to talking about the effects of the inability to control bad mood and inability to control oneself, and the resulting impact on relationships with others and the psychological and material damage that can occur.
The workshop received interaction from the participants, and they expressed the extent to which they benefited from the training workshop and their desire to apply many of the strategies that they acquired and learned through the workshop. At the end of the training workshop, Professor. Khalid Bani Hamdan, Dean of Student Affairs, and Professor Shatha Al-Rabeeh, Head of the Counseling and Psychological Services Department - Deanship of Student Affairs, presented the workshop and handing over certificates to participants.
