2.4 Personal Examples of Thinking Traps: Why We Need a Skill to Address Them

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Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills

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University of Pennsylvania

Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills

836 个评分

课程 4（共 5 门，Specialization Foundations of Positive Psychology ）

Learn how to incorporate resilience interventions into your personal and professional life with Dr. Karen Reivich. In this course, you are exposed to the foundational research in resilience, including protective factors such as mental agility and optimism. Several types of resilience interventions are explored including cognitive strategies; strategies to manage anxiety and increase positive emotions such as gratitude; and a critical relationship enhancement skill. Throughout the course, you will hear examples of individuals using resilience skills in their personal and professional lives. Suggested prerequisites: Positive Psychology: Martin E. P. Seligman’s Visionary Science, Positive Psychology: Applications and Interventions and Positive Psychology: Character, Grit & Research Methods.

从本节课中

Cognitive Approaches to Resilience: Strategies to Increase Optimism and Resilient Thinking

In this module, you will learn about thinking traps and how they undercut resilience. You will learn about five common thinking traps and identify which you are prone to, in addition to the effects of those styles of thinking. You will practice Real-Time Resilience, a strategy to challenge non-resilient thinking. Finally, you will hear about personal and organizational outcomes of optimism, and plan how to apply these concepts to your own life.

2.1 Thinking Traps Introduction7:29

2.2 Definition and Demonstration of Thinking Traps20:25

2.3 Detecting Patterns in Yourself, Activity: Trying Thinking Traps on for Size2:58

2.4 Personal Examples of Thinking Traps: Why We Need a Skill to Address Them3:54

与讲师见面

Karen Reivich, Ph.D.
Director of Resilience Training Services
Positive Psychology Center

I find myself at home with my husband Gabe, doing a lot of mind-reading.

He should know exactly what I'm thinking, and I, of course,

know exactly what he's thinking.

And we spend a lot of time, I spend a lot of time, in my head.

And it doesn't get us what we really need in our relationship.

One example of this is I was telling Gabe I had this work opportunity.

And I was going to be gone for a couple of weeks.

And he responded to me, and he seemed so happy.

And I spent a lot of time thinking about,

what is he thinking that's making him so happy?

And instead of talking to him about it, I was playing out a thousand different

scenarios of what was going through his mind, making him so

happy that I was going to be away.

Didn't serve us well.

>> I think it was really helpful for me to know of the common thinking traps

as I navigated my grief, particularly around relationships, Karen.

I found that really helpful.

So for instance, I mean I think what happens when you are grieving is

you need relationships as we know, the stand out finding of resilience

research is that nobody goes it alone, and we really need our relationships.

We need people to help us practically and emotionally.

But of course, it's a particularly hard time for relationships.

It's really hard for people to empathize when you have experienced

a lost that they have nothing to compare to.

And so that I ended up thinking that it is really

important for the bereaved individual to understand those thinking traps.

And to understand, for instance, that your friends and family members and

colleagues aren't mind readers, so we have to tell them what we need.

So for me it meant that

I would say to them for instance, I'm feeling terrible today, I need a hug.

I'm feeling terrible today, I don't want a hug.

[LAUGH] But just keeping them informed all the time, please can you help me,

maybe people could ask for some help with some baby sitting so you can get an hour

away to get outside, and to take a walk, to have some time on your own.

Well, maybe you don't need time on your own, and

you've had too much time on your own.

And so occasionally in those really first dark months,

I do remember sometimes sending out a text to a group of friends who have got dogs.

And we always walk our dogs on the beach in the morning.

And sometimes I'd send them a text just to say,

it might be quite good to bump into any of you this morning, please.

Just when we felt really, our own grief was too small a space.

So I think being explicit about how you feel, being brave enough to do that.

because it feels pretty demanding.

I think that's really helped me.

It's really enabled me to avoid that thinking trap.

So I would definitely recommend that people are just open about how they feel,

and you can acknowledge that that's hard to do.

Not just to try and keep your friends with you, and keep them up to date.

And that way it's easier to maintain those all-important relationships.

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