1.1 Welcome and Overview of the Course

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來自 University of Pennsylvania 的課程

Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills

602 個評分

University of Pennsylvania

Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills

602 個評分

課程 4（共 5 門，Specialization Foundations of Positive Psychology ）

Learn how to incorporate resilience interventions into your personal and professional life with Dr. Karen Reivich. In this course, you are exposed to the foundational research in resilience, including protective factors such as mental agility and optimism. Several types of resilience interventions are explored including cognitive strategies; strategies to manage anxiety and increase positive emotions such as gratitude; and a critical relationship enhancement skill. Throughout the course, you will hear examples of individuals using resilience skills in their personal and professional lives. Suggested prerequisites: Positive Psychology: Martin E. P. Seligman’s Visionary Science, Positive Psychology: Applications and Interventions and Positive Psychology: Character, Grit & Research Methods.

從本節課中

Resilience and Optimism

In this module, you will learn the definition of resilience and understand the protective factors that make one resilient. You will differentiate between helplessness and mastery orientations, and understand the thinking styles underlying each. You will summarize major outcomes of optimism, and the mediators of those outcomes, as well as assess your own levels of optimism, using a questionnaire. Finally, you will hear about personal and organizational outcomes of optimism, and will be able to apply these concepts to your own life.

1.1 Welcome and Overview of the Course4:06

1.2 Definition of Resilience and Foundational Research4:33

1.3 Variables that Contribute to Resilience13:25

1.4 Barbara Bradley Hagerty on Resilience in Midlife7:10

1.5 Jennifer Loredo and Resilience Stories12:01

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Karen Reivich, Ph.D.
Director of Resilience Training Services
Positive Psychology Center

Hey, I'm Karen Reivich and I want to welcome you to the Resilience course

of the Foundations of Positive Psychology specialization.

I'm the Director of

Training at the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center.

And I also teach here in the Master of Applied Positive Psychology Program.

Much of my work focuses on resilience.

What is it and how can we enhance it?

I've been really lucky to work with a range of people including students and

educators, soldiers in the US Army, business leaders, and the

Oklahoma City Thunder.

So thank you for joining me.

This course is going to have four modules.

The first module is an exploration of resilience.

What is it, and what is the role of optimism in resilience?

The second module,

we're going to look at the cognitive skills that increase resilience.

We'll explore when our thinking gets in the way of resilience.

And how to challenge that thinking so that we're more resilient.

In our third module, we're going to explore emotion.

First we'll look at anxiety, and we'll talk about

thinking styles that drive unhelpful amounts of anxiety.

And we'll talk about some skills you can use to challenge that unhelpful thinking.

We'll also talk about mindfulness, and

how through practices of mindfulness you can manage your anxiety.

We'll then go on to explore positive emotion.

Why is positive emotion important in resilience?

And we're going to do a close look at gratitude -

the attitude of gratitude - and

why gratitude is essential in enhancing our well-being and our resilience.

Finally, our fourth module is going to explore character strengths.

I'm going to ask you the question, who are you at your best?

What are your top character strengths?

Whether that be curiosity, or love, or playfulness, or humor.

And then we're going to talk about how you can use your top character strengths

to overcome challenges, to bounce back from setback.

We'll also,

in that last module, talk about the importance of relationships in resilience.

I'm going to teach you a skill around communicating with other

people around joy, and why that matters so much in resilience.

Now, I don't want this just to be the science of resilience.

A big part of the work I do,

is teaching other people how to enhance their resilience.

So as you go through this MOOC with me, learn the science,

listen to the fantastic guest speakers we have lined up for

you, but most importantly, try out the skills that I teach.

Because that's how you're going to leave this course,

not just knowing about resilience, but enhancing your resilience.

Okay, so week one, let's get started.

We're going to start by doing a deep dive into the concept of resilience.

I want to talk about definitions of resilience, of course.

And also, what are the variables that science tells us

are critical in building resilience?

And then, after we explore all of those variables,

we're going to focus on optimism.

And I hope to convince you that optimism is among the most important variables for

resilience, for well-being, strong relationships.

We're going to do a really deep dive into that.

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