the undefeated mind
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How Resilience Can Be Learned Alex Lickerman, M.D. The Undefeated Mind. Primary Care Group Student Health. About Me. Expect Obstacles. Our expectations influence our reactions to experiences Our expectations about task difficulty influence our performance. Self-Explanatory Style. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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THE UNDEFEATED MINDHow Resilience Can Be Learned
Alex Lickerman, M.D.
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About Me
• Primary Care Group• Student Health
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Expect Obstacles• Our expectations influence our reactions to
experiences• Our expectations about task difficulty
influence our performance
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Self-Explanatory Style• Self-explanatory style refers to the style with
which we explain the causes of events• Optimistic• Pessimistic
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Self-Explanatory Style and Depression
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Self-Explanatory Style, cont.• Naïve vs. realistic optimism• Depressive vs. defensive pessimism
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Changing Our Self-Explanatory Style
• Practice imagining alternative causes of events
• Avoid blanketing optimistic explanatory biases over all situations
Fresco et al., 2009
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Accept Pain• Distraction with something that arouses
emotion• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
(ACT)
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Accept Pain, cont.• Identify a situation that causes painful
emotion(s) to arise (e.g., social anxiety)• Identify goals that painful emotion obstructs• Practice non-judgment/acceptance
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Let Go• Sense-making• Benefit-finding
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Let Go, cont.• Avoid attempts to “undo” past events
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Find Me• [email protected]• www.alexlickerman.com