Burnout Flashcards
(51 cards)
What is temperment
The physiological or biological basis of personality that encompasses activity level, sociability, and emotionality. Resiliency: the ability to adapt to adversity and bounce back from trauma.
How to achieve happiness?
Choice and Change Making choices + self-control
Other esteem
involves respect, acceptance, caring, valuing and promoting others without reservation
Happiness
is considered to be a combination of life circumstances and a state of mind
Self-exploration:
being honest with yourself and others, thinking for yourself, deciding to acquire new ways of being, and making a commitment to live by your choices.
Personal growth:
an individual defines and assesses his or her own growth in a lifelong process while dealing with numerous crises at various stages of life. Those crisis are seen as challenges to change and can give life new meaning.
Self-actualization
working toward fulfilling our potential, toward becoming all that we are capable of becoming.
Emotional intelligence:
pertains to the ability to control impulses, empathize with others, form responsible interpersonal relationships, develop cooperative attitudes and behaviors, and develop intimate relationships.
Attachment:
an emotional bonding with another who is perceived as a source of security. Refers to a close, caring and enduring relationship
Temperament:
The physiological or biological basis of personality that encompasses activity level, sociability, and emotionality.
Self-concept:
refers to your awareness about yourself.
Psychological Moratorium:
period during which society would give permission to adolescents to experiment with different roles and values so they could sample life before making major commitments
Ego-defense mechanism
psychological strategies we use to protect our self-concept from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and shame.
Individuation
separating from our family system and establishing our own identity based on our experiences.
Whats a difficult experience in adolescence?
One of the most difficult circumstances during adolescence comes from bullying.
psychological maturity:
entails accepting responsibility for the consequences of your choices, rather than holding others accountable
The Life Script:
combines cultural messages, parental teachings and the early decisions we made as children.
Injunctions:
early messages that we incorporate in our lives
The inner parent:
refers to the attitudes and beliefs we have about ourselves and others that are a direct result of things we learned from our parent and parental substitutes.
The inner critic:
inner voice that criticizes us and makes constant judgments about our worth. Develops early in life and absorbs the judgments of people in our environment
Mindfulness
involves becoming increasingly observant and aware of external and internal stimuli, being in the present, and adopting an open attitude of accepting what is rather than judging the present situation.
Ageism:
Prejudice toward or stereotyping of people simply because they are perceived as being “old”.
Ego integrity:
feel lives have been productive and worthwhile. Coped with failures and successes well. Accept life as it was, not obsessed with thoughts of what might have been or what they could or should have done.
Wellness
a lifestyle choice and a lifelong process that involves taking care of our needs on all levels of functioning.