Unit 9
A disorder that develops months to years after a traumatic event. Causing a multitude of symptoms, ranging from fear of certain places or things to severe depression.
What is PTSD?
Intentional awareness of one's thoughts, feelings, and environment.
What is mindfulness?
Understanding how someone else is feeling by understanding their emotions.
What is compassion?
What is goal-setting?
The scientific study of human flourishing or what makes life worth living.
What is positive psychology?
The growth or flourishing of a person after an adverse event, by framing the event as a challenge or a learning opportunity.
What is Post-traumatic growth?
Heightened awareness and appreciation of life after facing mortality
What is spontaneous mindfulness?
Giving oneself the same level of compassion that they would give to other people.
What is self-compassion?
A theory that focuses on identifying which types of goals produce the highest levels of motivation and performance and why these goals have these effects.
What is goal-setting theory?
1. To cure mental illness
2. Enhance the lives of the normal population
3. To study geniuses
The ability to change and adapt during or after a negative emotional experience.
What is Resilience?
Coming off of autopilot and being more focused on the present.
What is de-autonomization?
The ability to feel the emotions of another person.
What is empathy?
The internal processes that drive individuals to take action, pursue goals, and fufill their needs or desires.
What is motivation?
The founder of the modern-day field of positive psychology.
Who is Martin Seligman?
When people, mainly therapists, experience negative psychological consequences from exposure to the traumatic experiences of others (clients).
What is Vicarious trauma?
Are we a mind with a body or a body with a mind?
What is the mind and body problem?
The idea that compassion (both towards oneself and towards others) is a key element in relieving human suffering.
What is compassion-focused therapy?
What is intrinsic motivation?
Mental state in which a person is completely focused on a task or activity
What is flow?
What is Recovery, Resistance, and Reconfiguration?
Defensive reactions to facing mortality. How humans manage the anxiety of death and the unknown.
What is the terror management theory?
1. Recognizing suffering
2. Understanding that suffering is universal
3. Feeling the suffering of another person
4. Tolerating discomfort
5. Motivation to act to relieve suffering of others
What are the five elements of compassion?
Specific
Measureable
Achievable
Result-Based
Time Specific
What does SMART stand for?
Meaning of PERMA
What is positive emotion, engagement, relationship, meaning, and accomplishment?