Facing Challenges

Discussion Guide – How Can I Minister to Others During a Crisis >

Topics:

• Part 1: Tips for Ministering to Others in a Crisis
• Part 2: Ideas of What to Say and Do
• Part 3: Facing Challenges: A Self-Help Guide
• Part 4: Who Can I Minister To?

Note: This discussion guide refers to the document ‘Ministering to Others Facing Challenges’.

Ministering to Others Facing Challenges >

Topics:

• Introduction
• Be Compassionate
• Allow Others to Express their Feelings
• Empathize and Normalize Responses
• Suggest Ways to Cope
• Offer Hope
• In Conclusion
• Additional Resources

Note: The discussion guide for this document is ‘Discussion Guide – How Can I Minister to Others During a Crisis’ described in the previous entry.

Facing Challenges – A Self-help Guide >

Topics

• Step 1: Identify and Acknowledge
• Step 2: Focus Our Thoughts
• Step 3: Act
• Step 4: Discuss and Share

Facing Challenges – Ministering to Others >

Topics

• Ideas of What to Say and Do
• Additional Considerations
• Additional Resources

Facing Challenges - For Youth >

Topics

• Note to Parents and Caregivers of Youth
• Strengthening your ability to face challenges
  
  • Step 1: Identify and accept your human responses
  • Step 2: Choose to focus on helpful and accurate thoughts
  • Step 3: Practice coping strategies
  • Step 4: Share and discuss
  • Additional Resources for Helping youth (multiple links)

Facing Challenges - Helping Children >

Topics

• Step 1: Recognize Reactions and Validate Emotions
• Step 2: Help Children Learn to Manage and Solve Problems
• Step 3: Nurture Secure and Safe Relationships
• General Developmental Factors and Common Reactions by Age
• Additional Resources for Helping Children (multiple links)

Facing Challenges - A Self-reflection and Improvement Guide >

Topics

• Introduction
• Relationships
• Physical Health
• Thoughts
• Behaviors
• Emotions
• Goals

Facing Challenges - Critical Incident Gathering - A Quick Reference Guide for Leaders >

Topics

• Introduction
• Establish a Safe and Welcoming Environment
• Demonstrate Compassion
• Empathize with Their Responses
• Discuss Practical Coping Strategies
• Teach How to Help Others
• Offer Hope
• Provide Resources
• Meet after the Gathering as a Leadership Council
• Additional Resources

Facing Challenges - Gospel Resources >

Topics

• Hope
• Overcoming through Jesus Christ
• Healing through the Savior Jesus Christ
• Enduring to the End
• God Loves Us
• Resilient Faith
• Ministering to Others
• Peace in Christ

Family Services Emergency Response - Self-Help for Emotional Care >

This handbook contains the following documents (listed above)

• PD80028501 – Facing Challenges – A Self-Help Guide
• PD80028502 – Facing Challenges – Ministering to Others
• PD80028503 – Facing Challenges – For Youth
• PD80028504 – Facing Challenges – Helping Children
• PD80028505 – Facing Challenges – A Self-Reflection and Improvement Guide
• PD80028506 – Facing Challenges – Critical In

Emotional Response Chart >

Topics

• General Response
• Delayed Response
• Resilient Response
• Potential Responses
• Your Experience

Consultation Services | Family Services (churchofjesuschrist.org) >

Topics:

• Help in Accessing Community Resources
• Emergency Response Psychosocial Services

Notes:

• Additional links are given for various counseling resources from the Church

Facing Challenges: Ministering to Others (churchofjesuschrist.org) >

Topics

• Introduction
• Ideas of What to Say and Do
• Express Compassion
• Allow Others to Express Their Feelings
• Empathize and Normalize Responses
• Ideas to Help Others Manage Emotions and Stress
• Offer
• Additional Considerations
• Additional Resources

Note: This is on the Church website under ‘Emergency Preparedness > Leader Resources > Facing Challenges: Ministering to Others’

Temporal Preparedness Resources (churchofjesuschrist.org) >

Topics:

• What can I do to prepare?
• Spiritual Foundations of Temporal Preparedness
• Additional Strategies for Help
  
  • Temps for Making an Emergency Plan
  • Tips for Being Financially Prepared
  • Tips for Food Storage and Production
  • Tips for Emotional Preparedness

Tips for Emotional Preparedness (churchofjesuschrist.org) >

Topics

• Learn calming skills
• Build relationships
• Make plans around safety and communication
• Identify your strengths and how you can help
• Remember to find hope
• Additional Strategies for Help

Note: This is on the Church website under ‘Life Help > Preparedness > Temporal Preparedness Resources > Tips for Emotional Preparedness’

Emotional-Self-Reliance-Manual-new.pdf (churchofjesuschrist.org) (Manual): >

Emotional Resilience (churchofjesuschrist.org) (Videos) >

Topics

• Chapter 1 – Building Emotional Resilience
• Chapter 2 – Healthy Thinking Patterns
• Chapter 3 – Our Body and Emotions
• Chapter 4 – Managing Stress and Anxiety
• Chapter 5 – Understanding Sadness and Depression
• Chapter 6 – Overcoming Anger
• Chapter 7 – Managing Addictive Behaviors
• Chapter 8 – Building Healthy Relationships
• Chapter 9 – Providing Strength to Others
• Chapter 10 – Moving Forward with Faith

Counseling Resources (churchofjesuschrist.org) >

These are instructions for Ward and Branch leaders on counseling with members and give some available resources.It includes two videos.
Links are given to the following topics.

• Abuse (Help for the Victim)
• Abuse (Offender’s Needs)
• Addiction
• Employment
• Finances
• Gender
• Grief and Loss
• Marital Conflict
• Mental Health
• Missionaries Who Return Home Early
• Pornography Use
• Same-Sex Attraction
• Single Expectant Parents
• Suicide
• Support for Care Givers
• Support for Spouses of Pornography Users

Becoming a Self-Reliant and Resilient Family (churchofjesuschrist.org) >

Online Store Link: Becoming a Self-Reliant and Resilient Family manual >

Topics:

• Lesson 1: How do I respond to challenges with resilience?
• Lesson 2: How do I become spiritually self-reliant?
• Lesson 3: How can my spouse and I build a strong marriage?
• Lesson 4: What behaviors will help my children increase in resilience?
• Lesson 5: How can we prepare as a family for times of separation?
• Lesson 6: What is the emotional cycle of separation, and how will it affect me and my family?
• Lesson 7: How can we prepare to be reunited as a family?
• Lesson 8: How can faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement help me?
• The Emotional Cycle of Deployment (ECOD)

Note: This is a stand-alone manual as well as being on the Church Gospel Library website under Gospel Library > Adults > Military Members

Emergency Preparedness >

Topics:

1. Food and Water Storage
   
   • Preparing an Emergency Food Storage
   • Guidelines on Emergency Water Storage and Purification
   • Long-Term Food and Water Storage
   • Home Storage Centers: Prices and Locations
2. Make an Emergency Plan
   
   • Disaster Planning
3. Emotional Resilience Helps Us to Prepare for Emergencies
   
   • Tips for Emotional Preparedness
   • Tips for Finding Personal Strength and Helping Others
   • Facing Challenges
   • Strengthening Resilience
   • Self-Reflection and Improvement Guide
   • Critical Incident Gathering: A Quick Reference for Church Leaders and Organizations
   • Getting Emotional and Psychological Help in an Emergency
4. Disaster Recovery Help
   
   • Church Resources
5. Get Involved
   
   • Emergency Preparedness and Response Tools for Leaders
   • Volunteer Opportunities
6. Leader Resources
   
   • Stake and Ward Emergency Preparedness
7. Facing Challenges: Ministering to Others
   
   • Emergency Communication Guides

Mental Health: General Principles (churchofjesuschrist.org) >

Topics:

1. Need Help? Talk now.
2. “Like a Broken Vessel”
3. Accept that healing may come in stages
4. Know that mental health challenges have many contributing factors
5. Focus on becoming like the Savior rather than simply accomplishing tasks
6. Receive the Savior’s divine empathy
7. Seek to mourn with those who mourn

Emotional Care Cards >

Available in the Online Store: $8.95 for 100 cards. Go to ‘Units and Callings > Callings > Self-Reliance

Topics:

1. Helping Others in Difficult Times
2. Suggested Statements and Questions
3. Finding Strength in Difficult Times
4. Suggestions

https://www.samhsa.gov/resource/dbhis/psychological-first-aid-online >

This link goes to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

• Guide for Professionals delivering death notifications with professionalism, dignity, and compassion
• This pamphlet was developed through a cooperative agreement between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Penn State University
• For further information and training, visit www.deathnotification.psu.edu

Topics:

1. Need Help? Talk now.
2. “Like a Broken Vessel”

Animated video on YouTube created by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Link: https://youtu.be/GKQAIEUaS7k