Core Beliefs
These are a person’s most central ideas about themselves, others, and the world. These beliefs act like a lens through which every situation and life experience is seen.
Core beliefs
Stress is defined as
Stress is the internal reaction to a stressor.
An individual’s what about an event and those involved determine whether a stressor will create stress.
Attitudes and Beliefs
Focusing on what may help you perfom better under stress and also develop new ones.
Strengths
What is the purpose of your internal critic saying "You can’t do it"?
Helps you avoid challenges
I am helpless, unlovable, or worthless are examples of what.
Harmful core beliefs
It may help to look at stressful events as a three-
step process.
What are the steps in a stressful event?
1. The stressor event
2. Beliefs
3. Emotional consequences
Stressors are defined as
something in the world that makes a demand on a person.
There is a difference between self-criticism and ____self-criticism.
irrational
As mean and irrational as these self-criticisms can be, they provide a form of what?
Self protection
What are some consequences of harmful core beliefs?
Interpersonal Problems
difficulty trusting others
feelings of inadequacy in relationships
excessive jealousy
overly confrontational or aggressive
putting others’ needs above one’s own needs
Mental Health Problems
depression
anxiety
substance abuse
difficulty handling stress
low self-esteem
Someone can face the _______stressor and have a totally different stress reaction.
Same
What are the three basic types of stressors?
There are three basic types of stressors: (1) frustrations, (2) pressures, and (3) conflicts.
What questions should you ask yourself if you are determining if a self-critcism is irrational?
• Is there any evidence that the self-criticism is true?
• Is there any evidence that the self-criticism is an
exaggeration?
You can use this technique to help assess irrational thinking.
Socratic Questioning
Core beliefs may develop during these two periods in life.
Stressful childhoods, traumatic periods in adulthood
What is associated with the words should, ought, must, always, and never.
___________ occur when obstacles block a person from reaching a goal.
Frustration
What prayer can help remind you that life is indeed a balancing act?
The Serenity Prayer
What is the new cellphone policy?
Negative core beliefs are not necessarily true even if they what?
Feel true
When you have an irrational beliefs, you should try to ___________ it.
dispute
Stress can come from__________that force people to achieve specific goals by speeding up, working harder, or changing the way they do something.
pressures
other people, events, laws, regulations, expectations, accusations, and broken promises.
Our attitude can truly help protect us against what of negativity from others by deflecting negativity before it causes serious damage.
attacks