Final Study Guide psychology for everyday life

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Final Study GuidePsychology

Cognitive Psychology

is the study ofmental processessuch as "attention,language use,memory,perception,problem solving, andthinking."

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I. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT is a type of psychotherapeutic treatment that helps patients understand the thoughtsand feelings that influence behaviors. The underlying concept behind CBT is that ourthoughts and feelings play a fundamental role in our behavior.

1. Perception viewing difficult experiences positively.

2. Acceptanceallowing painful feelings to come and go.

3. AwarenessMindfully engage the present moment.

From, Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Positive Psychology

1. Functional Beliefs helping to promote positive thoughts that are connected to positive beliefsabout yourself.

Do you believe you can overcome barriers and achieve goals (hope).

Do you view problems as a challenge or threat (problem-solving).

Do you believe you have social worth (self-esteem).

Defusionsuggests looking beyond bad thoughts

Cognitive restructuring suggests changing our beliefs.

Mindfulness helps to diffuseour bad thoughts and restructureour beliefs.
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2. Mindfulness and Awarenessconscious awareness with an open, receptive attitude, ofwhat is happening in the present moment.

a. Are you aware of your emotions, actions, external stimuli, and mental

processes?

b. Can you label and clarify the exact mixture of emotions that you are feeling at a

given point in time?

c. CONTEMPORARY USAGE OF THE TERM MINDFULNESSIN CLINICAL SETTINGS

HAS ITS ROOTS IN BUDDHIST CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES THAT OUTLINE

TRAINING OF THE MIND INVOLVING MEDITATION. THUS, MINDFULNESS IS

ORIGINALLY CONCEPTUALIZED THROUGH A FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPING

FAMILIARITY WITH ONES MIND.

d. Mindfulness-based stress reduction

i. Stressincluding work, school, family, financial, illness, aging, grief,uncertainty about the future, and feeling out of control.

ii. Medical conditionsincluding chronic illness or pain, high blood

pressure, fibromyalgia, cancer, heart disease, asthma, GI distress, skin

disorders, and many other conditions.

iii. Psychological distressincluding anxiety, panic, depression, fatigue, and

sleep disturbances.

iv. Prevention and Wellnessincluding health enhancement and wellness

focused on prevention and learning.

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Perspective Taking as an observer viewing your own actions, and trying to understandthe actions of others.

a. Can you take the perspective of others (empathy)?

b. Can you take perspective on yourself (self-as-context)?

c. Empathy involves connecting, building relationships, listening, and caring for

others.

d. How to act and react responsibly, or even compassionately, towards others.

e. Empathy enables us to reach out and connect with others in our human

condition, and it is a crucial need for our species, having an intrinsic

evolutionary and neurological basis for development.

4. Values verbal descriptions of what people are personally invested in, regard highly, andseek to uphold and defend.

a. What do you care about (values, personal strivings)?

b. Do other peoples desires for you dominate your own (controlled versus

autonomous motives)?


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i. Four Noble Truths:

5. Experiential Acceptance embracing private experiences without denying or lying aboutthem.

a. In order to live according to what you care about, are you willing to have private

experiences such as distress and self-doubt (courage)?

6. Behavioral Control - the ability to regulate behavior in a way that is consistent with onesvalues. Commitment!

a. Are you able to control what you say and do in a way that promotes your goals

and values (self-regulation, willpower)?

b. Do you persist (grit) and rebound from failure (resilience)?

c. Are you able to modify feelings in an adaptive way?

7. Cognitive Skill The use of reasoning, problem solving, and thought control.a. How well do you solve problems and reason (IQ)?

b. How well do you shift attention and inhibit irrelevant stimuli (flexible mindset)?

II. Forms of Mindfulness, from

1. Activist Practices: Pilgrimage to areas where social justice issues are highlighted, Work and

Volunteering, Vigils and Marches, Bearing Witness

2. Creative Practices:Contemplative Arts,Improvisation,Musicand Singing,Journaling

3. Generative Practices:Lectio Divina, Visualization,Beholding,Loving-Kindness Meditation

4. Movement Practices: Labyrinth Walking,Walking Meditation,Yoga,Dance,Qigong,

Aikido,Tai Chi Chuan

5. Relational Practices:Council Circle,Dialog,Deep Listening,Storytelling

6. Ritual/Cyclical Practices: Ceremonies and Rituals based in Spiritual or Cultural Traditions,

Establishing a Sacred/Personal Space,Retreats

7. Stillness Practices:Meditation,Quieting the Mind,Silence,Centering
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III. ProjectsProjects were designed for students to experience Mindfulness, as opposed to full minds.

Everyday life can be hectic and stressful and interfere with our values and goals. Mindfulness can

help us find peace. As collaborative, students were encouraged to complete a project within a team

of peers.

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Week 10Cups; helps students focus on a repetitive task that clears the mind of worries.

Week 11Deep Listening; allow students to improve relations and connect with others by

listening.

Week 12 - Qigong, Tai Chi; helps students balance their health through body and mind

exercise.

Week 13Finger Labyrinth; helps students combine spiritual and creative aspects.

Week 14 - Mindful Walking Meditation - Helps studentsmental health by clearing the mind,

experiencing nature through movement.

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