Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills

About this course: 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.

Who is this class for: Students interested in the study of Positive Psychology.

Created by:  University of Pennsylvania

• Taught by:  Karen Reivich, Ph.D., Director of Resilience Training Services

  Positive Psychology Center

Basic Info Course 4 of 5 in the Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization Level Beginner Commitment Four weeks of study, 2-5 hours a week. Language English How To Pass Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. User Ratings 4.9 stars Average User Rating 4.9See what learners said Travail en cours

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Syllabus


WEEK 1


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.


13 videos, 6 readings expand

1. Video: 1.1 Welcome and Overview of the Course
2. Lecture: Biography of Karen Reivich, Ph.D.
3. Lecture: Assignments, Grading and your Resilience Journal
4. Video: 1.2 Definition of Resilience and Foundational Research
5. Video: 1.3 Variables that Contribute to Resilience
6. Video: 1.4 Barbara Bradley Hagerty on Resilience in Midlife
7. Video: 1.5 Jennifer Loredo and Resilience Stories
8. Lecture: Optional Reading: The Resilience Factor
9. Lecture: Module 1 Lesson 1 - Optional Readings
10. Lecture: Optimism Questionnaire
11. Video: 1.6 Introduction to Optimism and Optimism Definitions
12. Video: 1.7 Benefits of Optimism
13. Video: 1.8 What Optimists Do Differently
14. Video: 1.9 Optimism Activity: Pursuit of Happyness Video
15. Demande de discussion: Optimism Activity
16. Video: 1.10 Organizational Highlight: Sam Presti on Optimism
17. Video: 1.11 Organizational Highlight: Maureen Rush
18. Video: 1.12 Personal Highlight: Lucy Hone
19. Video: 1.13 Summary of Week 1 and Preview of Week 2
20. Lecture: Module 1 Lesson 2 - Optional Readings

Graded: Module 1 Quiz
Graded: Pursuit of Happyness: Optimism in Action

WEEK 2


Cognitive Approaches to Resilience: Strategies to Increase Optimism and Resilient Thinking



In this module, you will learn about thinking traps and how they undercut resilience. You will learn about five common thinking traps and identify which you are prone to, in addition to the effects of those styles of thinking. You will practice Real-Time Resilience, a strategy to challenge non-resilient thinking. Finally, you will hear about personal and organizational outcomes of optimism, and plan how to apply these concepts to your own life.


8 videos, 2 readings expand

1. Video: 2.1 Thinking Traps Introduction
2. Video: 2.2 Definition and Demonstration of Thinking Traps
3. Video: 2.3 Detecting Patterns in Yourself, Activity: Trying Thinking Traps on for Size
4. Demande de discussion: Thinking Traps Scenarios
5. Video: 2.4 Personal Examples of Thinking Traps: Why We Need a Skill to Address Them
6. Lecture: Module 2 Lesson 1 - Optional Reading
7. Video: 2.5 Changing non-resilient thinking: Real-time Resilience
8. Video: 2.6 Real-time resilience Activity
9. Demande de discussion: Real Time Resilience Activity
10. Video: 2.7 Organizational Highlights: Emma Judge & Maureen Rush
11. Video: 2.8 Summary of Module 2 and Introduction to Module 3
12. Lecture: Module 2 Lesson 2 - Optional Reading

Graded: Module 2 Quiz

WEEK 3


Managing Anxiety and Increasing Positive Emotions Like Gratitude



In this module, you will learn the definition of catastrophic thinking and identify the effects it has on physiology, attention and contingency planning. You will experiment with several non-cognitive strategies to decrease anxiety, including Deliberate Breathing. You will be introduced to the Broaden and Build theory of positive emotions, and will be able to describe the effects of positive emotions on resilience. Finally, you will relate research and examples of gratitude to your own life and develop a plan for a gratitude practice.


14 videos, 4 readings expand

1. Video: 3.1 Introduction: Catastrophizing and the Relationship of Anxiety to Resilience
2. Video: 3.2 Dr. Baime: Effects of Anxiety on Our Bodies
3. Video: 3.3 Demonstrations of Several Styles of Catastrophizing
4. Video: 3.4 Triggers of Catastrophizing
5. Lecture: Module 3 Lesson 1 - Optional Reading
6. Lecture: Activity: Challenging Catastrophic Thinking Part 1
7. Video: 3.5 Introduction to three Different Ways to Manage Anxiety
8. Lecture: Activity: Challenging Catastrophic Thinking Part 2
9. Video: 3.6 Dr. Park: Deliberate Breathing to Manage Anxiety
10. Video: 3.7 Dr. Baime: A Mindfulness Approach to Anxiety
11. Video: 3.8 Positive Emotions Broaden
12. Video: 3.9 Positive Emotions Build Resources
13. Demande de discussion: Positive Emotion Photos
14. Video: 3.10 Gratitude Research
15. Video: 3.11 Gratitude Skill: HTGS
16. Demande de discussion: Hunt the Good Stuff
17. Video: 3.12 Designing a Gratitude Practice: Team Collage
18. Video: 3.13 Organizational Highlights: Sam Presti, Maureen Rush & Carolyn McIntyre
19. Video: 3.14 Summary of Module 3 and Preview of Module 4
20. Lecture: Module 3 Lesson 2 - Optional Readings

Graded: Design a Gratitude Practice
Graded: Module 3 Quiz

WEEK 4


Leveraging Character Strengths and Strengthening Relationships



In this module, you will identify your own character strengths using a well-validated questionnaire. Next, you will describe how to use your character strengths in stressful situations to increase resilience by creating a buffer of positive emotion. Additionally, you will learn the research on active constructive responding, and identify their predominant responding style with important people in their lives. Finally, you will hear examples of inculcating resilience into organizations, and plan how to incorporate resilience strategies into your personal and professional lives.


9 videos, 3 readings expand

1. Lecture: Values in Action (VIA) Survey
2. Video: 4.1 Background and Definition of Signature Strengths
3. Video: 4.2 Activities: Developing Character Strengths and VIA Conversation
4. Demande de discussion: VIA
5. Video: 4.3 Using Character Strengths to Navigate an Upcoming Challenge
6. Demande de discussion: Using Character Strengths to Navigate an Upcoming Challenge
7. Video: 4.4 Shadow Side of Character Strengths
8. Video: 4.5 Introduction to ACR
9. Video: 4.6 ACR Role Plays
10. Video: 4.7 Activity: ACR Patterns
11. Lecture: Activity: Response Style Patterns
12. Video: 4.8 Inculcating Resilience in an Organization: Emma Judge and Sam Presti
13. Demande de discussion: Applying Resilience to Your Life
14. Lecture: Module 4 Lesson 2 - Optional Readings
15. Video: 4.9 Course Summary

Graded: Module 4 Quiz