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The Undefeated Mind

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.

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The Undefeated Mind

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  1. How Resilience Can Be Learned Alex Lickerman, M.D. The Undefeated Mind

  2. Primary Care Group Student Health About Me

  3. Expect Obstacles • Our expectations influence our reactions to experiences • Our expectations about task difficulty influence our performance

  4. Self-Explanatory Style • Self-explanatory style refers to the style with which we explain the causes of events • Optimistic • Pessimistic

  5. Self-Explanatory Style and Depression Suicidal ideation Negative life events Hirsch et al., 2009

  6. Self-Explanatory Style, cont. • Naïve vs. realistic optimism • Depressive vs. defensive pessimism

  7. Changing Our Self-Explanatory Style • Practice imagining alternative causes of events • Avoid blanketing optimistic explanatory biases over all situations Fresco et al., 2009

  8. Accept Pain • Distraction with something that arouses emotion • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  9. 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

  10. Let Go • Sense-making • Benefit-finding

  11. Mean Adjustment Score Adjustment Measure Davis et al, 2000

  12. Let Go, cont. • Avoid attempts to “undo” past events

  13. alickerman@gmail.com www.alexlickerman.com Find Me

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