Summary: <p>Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery: Hardiness and Resilience<br> Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes<br> Executive Director, AllCEUs</p> <p>Continuing Education (CE) credits can be earned for this presentation at <a href="https://www.allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/576/c/"> https://www.allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/576/c/</a></p> <p>Objectives<br> ~ Define resilience<br> ~ Identify characteristics that make people more resilient and ways we can enhance those characteristics<br> ~ Define Hardiness<br> ~ Examine what hardiness is important to resilience<br> Resilience<br> ~ Resilience is the capacity to bounce back<br> ~ Characteristics of resilient people:<br> ~ Awareness of and minimized vulnerabilities<br> ~ Healthy self-esteem<br> ~ Strong social support system<br> ~ Self-awareness<br> ~ Self-Efficacy<br> ~ Problem Solving Skills<br> ~ Practice acceptance<br> ~ Can tolerate distress<br> ~ Have an optimistic viewpoint<br> Awareness of Vulnerabilities<br> ~ Emotional Distress<br> ~ Emotional Eustress<br> ~ Mental Distress<br> ~ Mental Eustress<br> ~ Physical Distress<br> ~ Nutrition (poor nutrition, dieting, too much caffeine)<br> ~ Sleep<br> ~ Exercise (pain, exhaustion)<br> ~ Pain<br> ~ Illness<br> Vulnerabilities cont…<br> ~ Social Distress<br> ~ Social Eustress<br> ~ Environmental Distress<br> ~ Environmental Eustress<br> Self Esteem<br> ~ Ability to provide validation and acceptance of self<br> ~ Identify personal strengths and positive characteristics<br> ~ Separate who you are from what you do<br> ~ Explore cognitions about:<br> ~ Why other people’s opinions matter<br> ~ Attributions</p> <p>Strong Social Support System<br> ~ Social supports are our greatest buffers against stress<br> ~ Relationships can be one of the greatest causes of stress<br> ~ Identify characteristics of healthy vs. unhealthy relationships.<br> ~ Explore ways to nurture and enhance healthy relationships.<br> ~ Identify ways to deal with unhealthy people<br> ~ Learn about temperament and complimentarity<br> Self-Awareness<br> ~ Temperament<br> ~ Needs<br> ~ Wants<br> ~ Values (Truly important, driving forces)<br> ~ Goals<br> ~ Is what I am doing getting me closer to or further away from what is important to me<br> ~ Physical and emotional state in the present<br> ~ Triggers (positive and negative)</p> <p>Self-Efficacy<br> ~ Believing in one’s own capacity to accomplish goals (effectiveness)<br> ~ Identification as a survivor not a victim (Locus of control)<br> ~ Hardiness<br> ~ Commitment: Motivation<br> ~ Control: Realistic understanding of what is within one’s control<br> ~ Challenge: Not too easy, but not overwhelming. Exciting opportunity<br> Problem Solving Skills<br> ~ Ability to conceptualize problems<br> ~ Willingness to seek out help<br> ~ Motivation to actually take action</p> <p>~ Don’t bring me a problem unless you have an idea for at least one realistic solution.<br> Acceptance<br> ~ Sometimes things just are…<br> ~ Unfortunate<br> ~ Inaccessible<br> ~ Unchangeable<br> ~ Willingness to accept life on life’s terms without<br> ~ Judging<br> ~ Trying to change the unchangable<br> Distress Tolerance<br> ~ Ability to feel a feeling without having to react<br> ~ “I am angry”<br> ~ “I am having a feeling of being angry”<br> ~ “I am angry but can choose whether or not to stew in it”<br> ~ Note<br> ~ There are no “You made me” (victim stance)<br> ~ There is no active attempt to change it at this point<br> ~ Feelings are there to tell us something. Fighting them or nurturing them only prolongs them.<br> Optimism<br> ~ Finding the silver l</p>
