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Valerie’s life work is focused on the encouragement of movement of those
she serves in the holis�c loving of God with all one’s heart, mind, soul and
strength, and the loving of others and self as Christ loved us. This work is
founded on a Genesis-based worldview delinea�ng the broken pa�erns
that draw us toward the world and then offering the redemp�ve pa�erns
that lead us back to our true iden�ty in Christ. Valerie is an avid reader of
the Word and has read the en�re Bible 25+ �mes and believes that this is
the source of any blessing of Biblical understanding offered.

Valerie is a professionally licensed counselor with an MA in Clinical Psycho-
logy from Wheaton College and is a cer�fied spiritual director. She also has
an MDiv equivalency from Northern Seminary. She is a member and been
a presenter for the American Associa�on of Chris�an Counselors under the
Society for Chris�an Psychology (SCP). She also co-presented with her hus-
band Michael, as well as having been a member, writer and spiritual devo-
�onal leader on the Spirituality Commi�ee for the la�er. She was a mentor
of professionals at the European Leadership Forum (ELF) for two consecu-
�ve years. She is a co-founder of Community Care Center for an underser-
ved popula�on and founder of Founda�on Counseling and Training where
Chris�an counseling services were offered. She currently teaches Psycho-
logy courses from a Chris�an worldview at Liberty University Online.

Valerie Murphy (USA):

Mo�va�on and Emo�on Fluency Educa�on in Psychology Curriculum

An emphasis on the mo�va�on and emo�on already going on in building understanding of hu-
aspects of what it means to be human (as part of man mo�va�on and emo�on. The hope is that it
the whole), leads to a more robust defini�on in the might enhance learning and curriculum develop-
ongoing conversa�on discussing human expression ment already taking place. This paper examines the
and mental health. The Biblical mandate to love importance of mo�va�on and emo�on awareness,
God, self, and others holis�cally and through the builds fluency and skill building through a scriptu-
expression of the fruits of the Spirit; add congru- ral-prac�cal model and mo�va�on and emo�on
ence to this train of thought. Biblical and academic lis�ngs; thus encouraging movement toward self-
research findings validate the importance of con�- regula�on and movement from behaviors of vice
nued educa�on of psychology and counseling stu- toward those of virtue. As is evident, mo�va�on
dents, not only in cri�cal thinking skills and thought and emo�on fluency and its applica�on to mental
processing, yet also in mo�va�on and emo�on flu- health has gained great momentum in research lite-
ency. Emo�on skill building, awareness, and increa- rature and in the field of psychology over the past
sed regula�on competence may then be passed on 25 years (Li�rell, 2022). Current interest in the field
to those served. First, considera�on is given to a is extensive.
Genesis-based founda�on of mo�va�on factors. The field of affec�ve science encompasses a broad
Second, an emo�on list by category is given to aid range of affec�ve processes, which includes emo�-
in emo�on awareness and fluency. Finally, an ex- ons, moods, preferences, a�tudes, value-based
ample of a scripture-based beneficial emo�on ex- decisions, and stress responses. … Affect determi-
pression is given, as a pa�ern to build upon. nes what we a�end to and remember, what we de-
cide to do and what we decide not to do, who we
Mo�va�on and Emo�on Fluency Educa�on in Psy- are drawn to and who we avoid, how we are similar
chology Curriculum to and different from other people, and how we in-
This paper is presented to add to the conversa�on teract produc�vely and unproduc�vely with

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