A brief description on,
What is optimism?
Who is an optimist?
How to become and optimist?
Optimism and it's effects om health?
Optimistic behavior?
Difference between an Optimist and Pessimist.
It is about concept and significance of positive psychology in the modern world. it also explains techniques positive psychology recommends for attaining happiness and blissful state.
A brief description on,
What is optimism?
Who is an optimist?
How to become and optimist?
Optimism and it's effects om health?
Optimistic behavior?
Difference between an Optimist and Pessimist.
It is about concept and significance of positive psychology in the modern world. it also explains techniques positive psychology recommends for attaining happiness and blissful state.
Character strengths and virtues are essential elements of Positive psychology. Seligman has given 6 virtues and 24 character strengths which are further explained in the presentation.
Your Life Satisfaction Score (beta) is an indicator of how you thrive in your life: it reflects how well you shape your lifestyle, habits and behaviors to maximize your overall life satisfaction along the five following dimensions:
►1. Health & fitness, reflecting your physical well-being and healthy habits;
►2. Positive emotions & gratitude, indicating how well you embrace positive emotions;
►3. Skills & expertise, measuring the ability to grow your expertise and achieve something unique;
►4. Social skills & discovery, assessing the strength of your network and your inclination to discover the world;
►5. Leadership & meaning, gauging your compassion, generosity and how much 'you are living the life of your dream'.
Visit www.Authentic-Happiness.com to check your Life Satisfaction score. Free, no registration required.
Concentrating on a task is one aspect of flow.
In positive psychology, flow, also known as the zone, is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by complete absorption in what one does, and a resulting loss in one's sense of space and time.
This presentation on positive psychology's view of healing trauma though post traumatic growth was given to an audience of 150 trauma survivors in San Francisco, CA.
Originally Eysenck characterized an individual's personality on two scales. Introversion - extraversion and stable - unstable. A person may thus be
Introverted and Stable,
Introverted and Unstable,
Extraverted and Stable or
Extraverted and Unstable.
The scale, stable - unstable, measures an increasing level of neuroticism. Eysenck's term "neuroticism" does not mean that the persons actually have neurosis, only that they are more inclined to get one.
They are continuous scales, so one can of course also score in the middle, for example, only 50% unstable and only 50% introverted. Later in his career he added Psychoticism.
This is a presentation regarding Albert Ellis' REBT. Ellis' model teaches us to dispute irrational beliefs and replace them with rational ones to experience effective change.
Allport's personality Theory separates all traits into three basic subcategories: Cardinal, Central, and Secondary traits. This trait theory suggests that individual personalities are composed of broad dispositions. It is also based mainly on differences between individuals. The combination and interaction of various traits form a personality that is unique to each individual, this theory focused on identifying and measuring these individual personality characteristics.
Character strengths and virtues are essential elements of Positive psychology. Seligman has given 6 virtues and 24 character strengths which are further explained in the presentation.
Your Life Satisfaction Score (beta) is an indicator of how you thrive in your life: it reflects how well you shape your lifestyle, habits and behaviors to maximize your overall life satisfaction along the five following dimensions:
►1. Health & fitness, reflecting your physical well-being and healthy habits;
►2. Positive emotions & gratitude, indicating how well you embrace positive emotions;
►3. Skills & expertise, measuring the ability to grow your expertise and achieve something unique;
►4. Social skills & discovery, assessing the strength of your network and your inclination to discover the world;
►5. Leadership & meaning, gauging your compassion, generosity and how much 'you are living the life of your dream'.
Visit www.Authentic-Happiness.com to check your Life Satisfaction score. Free, no registration required.
Concentrating on a task is one aspect of flow.
In positive psychology, flow, also known as the zone, is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by complete absorption in what one does, and a resulting loss in one's sense of space and time.
This presentation on positive psychology's view of healing trauma though post traumatic growth was given to an audience of 150 trauma survivors in San Francisco, CA.
Originally Eysenck characterized an individual's personality on two scales. Introversion - extraversion and stable - unstable. A person may thus be
Introverted and Stable,
Introverted and Unstable,
Extraverted and Stable or
Extraverted and Unstable.
The scale, stable - unstable, measures an increasing level of neuroticism. Eysenck's term "neuroticism" does not mean that the persons actually have neurosis, only that they are more inclined to get one.
They are continuous scales, so one can of course also score in the middle, for example, only 50% unstable and only 50% introverted. Later in his career he added Psychoticism.
This is a presentation regarding Albert Ellis' REBT. Ellis' model teaches us to dispute irrational beliefs and replace them with rational ones to experience effective change.
Allport's personality Theory separates all traits into three basic subcategories: Cardinal, Central, and Secondary traits. This trait theory suggests that individual personalities are composed of broad dispositions. It is also based mainly on differences between individuals. The combination and interaction of various traits form a personality that is unique to each individual, this theory focused on identifying and measuring these individual personality characteristics.
The Evaluative component of the self: Self-esteem.
The concept of self develops even before we learn to spell it. Yes, when a child recognizes itself in a mirror, the spurt to the concept of self starts!
But then What is self-esteem, really?
Can having a lower self-esteem mean it's doom or does having a higher one mean it's a fortune?
Well, it's all a matter of your time to know, by viewing this slide :)
This presentation provides information about the Psychodynamic Theories of child psychology. It is well supported with examples and illustrations for a better understanding of the topic.
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A brief outline regarding the basics of Cognitive behavioural therapy CBT applicable for various mental heatlh conditions
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Similar to Optimism and Learned Optimism- Martin Seligman (20)
Welcome to the Program Your Destiny course. In this course, we will be learning the technology of personal transformation, neuroassociative conditioning (NAC) as pioneered by Tony Robbins. NAC is used to deprogram negative neuroassociations that are causing approach avoidance and instead reprogram yourself with positive neuroassociations that lead to being approach automatic. In doing so, you change your destiny, moving towards unlocking the hypersocial self within, the true self free from fear and operating from a place of personal power and love.
4. ~ Optimistic make external, variable & specific attribution for failure-like events.
~ Pessimist use internal, stable & global attribution.
~Optimistic-
a) to account the role of other people & environment in producing
bad outcomes.
b) to interpret the bad event as not likely to happen.
c) to constrain the bad outcome to just on the performance area &
not on others.
5. There are two students who failed in an examination and one of them is optimistic
whereas the other one is pessimistic.
Optimistic student's reaction
• It was poorly worded exam.
• I performed better in previous exams.
• I'll perform better in upcoming exams.
• I am doing better in other areas of life.
Pessimistic student's reaction
• I messed up.
• I performed poor earlier.
• I won't be able to do anything.
6. Different impacts of Optimism & Pessimism-
Optimistic
• Achieve more
• Better health
• Live Longer
• Low risk of cancer
(study by M. Seligman)
Pessimistic
• Give up easily.
• Easily depressed.
• Fell ill frequently.
8. • The concept of learned optimism was given by Martin Seligman.
• In Abramson, Seligman & Teasdale (1978), reformulated this model of
helplessness to incorporate the explanation that people make good or bad
things happen to them.
9.
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11. How to Increase Your Optimism?
Under learned optimism, positivity is a skill that takes practice to learn. The learned
optimism process involves changing how we think about the causes of events. As
we practice learned optimism, it may take a while for we to retrain our thoughts. we
can try these two models to rethink how we explain the causes of our circumstances.
12. ABCDE Model-
Dr. Seligman promotes the “ABCDE” model of learned optimism, which
involves asking ourself these questions about our negative thoughts:
• Adversity: What event caused the negative thoughts?
• Belief: How do we feel about the event?
• Consequence: What behaviours came from our feelings about the event?
• Disputation: What examples of events prove our negative beliefs wrong?
• Energization: How does challenging our negative beliefs inspire us to
move forward?
13. Recognize Cognitive Distortion With the Three P’s-
We can try to reframe negative thoughts through three kinds of cognitive distortions:
• Personalization: Instead of blaming a negative event on ourself, can you connect
it to an outside cause?
• Permanence: Instead of thinking that the negative event will affect us forever, can
we make changes for the future?
• Pervasiveness: Instead of believing that one bad event will impact every other
event, can we identify it as a single event?
14. Childhood Antecedents of learned optimism-
• Genetic plays an important role in the learned optimism.
• In a study, it was found out that monozygotic twins had more correlation in
compared to dizygotic twins in the level of optimism.
• Parents play an important role in development of optimistic behavior.
• Parents who provided safe, coherent environment are likely to promote the
learned optimism style in their offspring.
(Franz, McClelland, Weinberger & Peterson, 1944)
• Parents who understood their child's failures and generally attributed those failure
to external rather the internal factors
• (Syder, Higgins, & Stucky 1983/2005)
15. • Pessimistic parents raise pessimistic child. Childhood trauma (Parental death,
abuse, incest etc.) yield pessimism.
(Peterson, Bunce, & Larsen 1995)
• Parental Divorce also results in development of pessimistic behavior.
(Seligman, 1991)
16. Neuro-biological basis of optimism-
• Investigators have reported that pessimism and depression are related to abnormal
limbic system functioning as well as to dysfunctional operations of the lateral
prefrontal cortex and the paralimbic system. Indeed, depression appears to be
linked to deficiencies in neurotransmitters.
-(Liddle,2001)
• Research is still in its early phases, it appears that there are neurobiological
markers in the brain that are linked to perceived control and pessimism-depression
thoughts.