075 -Self Esteem Building

Summary: Self-Esteem Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs CEs can be earned for this presentation at <a href="https://www.allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/587/c/">https://www.allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/587/c/</a> Objectives ~ The Nature of Self-Esteem ~ Identifying and Disarming the Critic ~ Creating an Accurate Self Assessment ~ Identifying Cognitive Distortions ~ Developing Compassion ~ Shaking the Shoulds ~ Handling Mistakes ~ Responding to Criticism ~ Goal Setting ~ Core Beliefs ~ Building Self Esteem in Children The Nature of Self-Esteem ~ How you feel about yourself in contrast to who you think you “should” be ~ The more rejecting we are of ourselves, the more ~ Distress we experience ~ We seek external validation ~ In order to develop healthy relationships people need to feel good about themselves The Pathological Critic ~ Arsenal of shoulds ~ Origin of the Critic: Conditions of Worth ~ Why you listen to the critic ~ The role of reinforcement ~ Catching your critic ~ Unmasking his purpose ~ Talking back Accurate Self-Assessment ~ Self-Concept inventory ~ Listing your strengths and weaknesses ~ Developing a new self-description ~ Celebrating your strengths Cognitive Distortions ~ The distortions ~ Combating the distortions Compassion ~ Compassion defined ~ Creating a compassionate world ~ The problem of worth ~ Developing compassion for others The Shoulds ~ How values are formed ~ The tyranny of should ~ Healthy vs. Unhealthy values ~ How should affects your self esteem ~ Challenging and revising your shoulds ~ Atonement—When shoulds make sense Handling Mistakes ~ Reframing mistakes ~ The problem of awareness ~ Raising your mistake consciousness Responding to Criticism ~ The myth of reality ~ Responding to criticism ~ Putting it all together Asking for What You Want ~ Legitimate needs ~ Needs vs. wants ~ Wants inventory ~ Wants into words ~ Whole messages Goal Setting and Planning ~ What do you want ~ Selecting goals ~ Making your goals SMART ~ Making a commitment ~ Blocks to achieving goals Core Beliefs ~ Identifying Core Beliefs ~ Developing new core beliefs Building Self-Esteem in Children ~ The power of parents ~ Parents as mirrors ~ Look at your child ~ Listening ~ The language of self-esteem ~ Discipline ~ Autonomy ~ Modeling self-esteem Summary ~ Self esteem begins in childhood ~ It is imperative to help people separate strengths and weaknesses from who they are ~ Self loathing and rejection contributes to dysphoria ~ Part of self esteem development includes ~ Values identification ~ Understanding wants vs. needs ~ Addressing cognitive distortions

075 -Self Esteem Building

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