Behavioral therapy – very short
Behavioral therapy, often referred to as behavior modification, is a therapeutic approach of altering a person’s behaviors and reactions through positive and negative reinforcement.
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Emotions
According to Lazarus (1991) emotions may be defined according to ‘core relational themes’ which are intuitive summaries of the ‘moral appraisals’ (e.g. of relevance, goal conduciveness) involved in different emotions.
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Memory and Goals
What Are Goals?
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (1999) defines a goal as “the object of a person’s ambition or effort; a destination; an aim” (p. 505).
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The Four Branches of Emotional Intelligence
Salovey and Mayer proposed a model that identified four different factors of emotional intelligence: the perception of emotion, the ability reason using emotions, the ability to understand emotion and the ability to manage emotions.
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The Four Agreements
One of the best books I have read. Here is the essence.
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Positive thinking
Positive thinking is something we are born with, but lose soon. Pain, discomfort, hunger, disappointment make us believe that we do not deserve something, life is not worthy, and others are against us.
However positive thinking may be boosted and revived. Through culture, for example.
Side effects of psychotherapy
If you think there are side effects of psychotherapy, you may be .. right
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Exercise as a treatment for depression
The effects of exercise on depression have been a source of contentious debate. Meta-analyses have demonstrated a range of effect sizes. Both inclusion criteria and heterogeneity may influence the effect sizes reported. The extent and influence of publication bias is also unknown. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were identified from a recent Cochrane review and searches of major electronic databases.
Exercise and stressors
.. So, when researchers at the university were looking for a way of testing how exercise affects the body’s response to real-world stressors, they had a perfect population to study. Their results support a theory that, as your body learns to adapt to one form of stress (such as exercise), the benefits extend to other forms of stress (such as exams). And they add to growing evidence that stress management may be one of the key links between exercise and lower rates of heart disease
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Changing the negative culture at job place
How can I change the negative culture my boss creates on my team?
KYLE COUCH AND DANIEL LUBLIN
Special to The Globe and Mail, Published Sunday, Mar. 13, 2016
THE QUESTION
I am part of a sales team. My new boss seems to use scare tactics, and threatens to fire us all if the sales numbers aren’t great.
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