Resilience - Education, Personality Development

Video: Building Resilience

By JOHN M. GROHOL, PSY.D.
Article from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/

We all know that having resilience in life is tied directly to one’s happiness. In general, the more resilient a person is — that is, the more easily they can bounce back from life’s downs — the happier a life they will lead.

So the question then becomes, How does one build resilience? Can we nurture it like we nurture our creativity or intimacy?

In this video, Psych Central’s Ask the Therapists Daniel J. Tomasulo, Ph.D. & Marie Hartwell-Walker, Ed.D. discuss the issue of how does a person make their relationship work. What goes into making a relationship successful? Find out by watching the segment below:

The 4 tips offered by Dr. Marie in the video to help build resilience are:

What’s going right with your day?

Act more positive than you feel

Acting kind

Dress as though you’re successful

Dr. Dan adds one more:

Challenge your thoughts — “Is there another way to look at this?”

Dr. Marie and Dr. Dan host many videos on relationship and mental health topics here on our blog and you can check them out on our YouTube channel. Want to learn more about Dr. Marie and Dr. Dan?

JOHN M. GROHOL, PSY.D.
Article from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/

Sidney Dekker on Resilience

Human Factors and System Safety, Leading Opinion from Professor Sidney Dekker. Embraces the Systems Perspective and discusses Resilience, what it is, why you need it and how you get it. THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE | Resilience | PBS

Resilience is a cornerstone of emotional wellbeing, and it's a skill that's often tested and formed during hard times. Bob Shumaker, a Vietnam veteran and former POW, shares his remarkable story of resilience in THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE (Jan. 4-6, 2010). Resilience

Title track of from the album "Resilience" by Annabelle Chvostek, www.annabelle.org Music video directed and animated by Glenn Gear, music produced by Roma Baran and Vivian Stoll, Movement direction by Valerie Dean, Choreography / Dance by Alyson Wishnousky Buy "Resilience" on Studying resiliency in children

Yo Jackson, associate professor of applied behavioral science and clinical child psychology, hopes to improve treatment for children exposed to trauma or abuse by studying youth who seem to be more resilient than others, thanks to a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institutes of Mental Health. The Resilience of Teacher Culture

Dr. Richard Elmore, Harvard University. Excerpt from the UCEA Mitsifer Lecture. November 11, 2006. Created by Dr. Scott McLeod, Director, UCEA CASTLE, www.scottmcleod.net/contact.

Living a Good Life

Various Professors

How to Live Given the Certainty of Death

By Shelly Kagan - Yale

Lecture Description

In this lecture, Professor Kagan invites students to pose the question of how one should live life knowing that it will certainly end in death. He also explores the issue of how we should set our goals and how we should go about achieving them, bearing in mind the time constraints. Other questions raised are how this ultimately affects the quality of our work and our accomplishments, as well as how we decide what is worth doing in life.

A Person in the World of People: Morality

By Paul Bloom - Yale

Lecture Description

Professor Bloom provides an introduction to psychological theories of morality. Students will learn how research in psychology has helped answer some of the most central questions about human morality. For instance, which emotions are "moral" and why did these moral feelings evolve? What factors guide our moral judgments? And what factors predict when good people will do bad things?

The Good Life: Happiness

By Paul Bloom - Yale

Lecture Description

The last lecture in the course wraps up the discussion of clinical psychology with a discussion of treatment efficacy. Does therapy actually work? Professor Bloom summarizes the different types of influences that clinical interventions might have on people who receive therapy. Professor Bloom ends with a review of one of the most interesting research topics in "positive psychology," happiness. What makes us happy? How does happiness vary across person and culture? What is happiness for? Students will hear how the most recent research in psychology attempts to answer these questions and learn how people are surprisingly bad at predicting what will make them happiest.

How Do You Build Resilience?

Published on Apr 11, 2012

Psych Central.com's Ask the Therapists Daniel J. Tomasulo, Ph.D. & Marie Hartwell-Walker, Ed.D. talk about how you can build more resilience in your life. Why would you want to? People with higher resilience can better withstand stress and cope with life's challenges.