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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 Presentation
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THE UNDEFEATED MINDHow Resilience Can Be Learned
Alex Lickerman, M.D.
About Me
• Primary Care Group• Student Health
Expect Obstacles• Our expectations influence our reactions to
experiences• Our expectations about task difficulty
influence our performance
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
Self-Explanatory Style, cont.• Naïve vs. realistic optimism• Depressive vs. defensive pessimism
Changing Our Self-Explanatory Style
• Practice imagining alternative causes of events
• Avoid blanketing optimistic explanatory biases over all situations
Fresco et al., 2009
Accept Pain• Distraction with something that arouses
emotion• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
(ACT)
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
Let Go• Sense-making• Benefit-finding
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Let Go, cont.• Avoid attempts to “undo” past events
Find Me• [email protected]• www.alexlickerman.com