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Psychology is Changing. This Is What You Need To Know
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Understand the process
There has recently been an important change in the way clinical psychology is being handled.
Nowadays, it can be clearly seen that what is the most important is the understanding o...
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Process Based Therapy
Process Based Therapy bases itself on Network Science, which emphasis the importance of networks, nodes and possible barriers to change in order to get a better understanding of the mental ...
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Extended Evolutionary Meta Model
This Meta Model refers to the idea according to which dynamic and complex networks change or shift dramatically rather than gradually.
When this occurs, the so-called Process Based Therapy...
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Change and its necessity
Change in clinical psychology has led to discovering the Process Based Therapy that is, by all means, a great evolution in the field.
What makes PBT so special is the fact that this therap...
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Describing Hope
Hope is a positive cognitive state based on determination and planning to meet a goal successfully. It consists of three things:
- Goals thinking : the ability to create goals.
- Pathways thinking : the capacity to plan specific strategies to reach those goals.
- Agency thinking : the ability to stay motivated for using those strategies.
According to psychologist Charles Snyder, hope is in the context of doing (the capacity to achieve goals), not in the realm of being.
4 Types of Hope
- Realistic hope: It is hope for an outcome that is reasonable and possible. For example, hope for ease from chronic pain, knowing that complete eradication is unrealistic.
- Utopian hope: It is a collectively oriented hope that combined action can lead to a better future for everyone.
- Chosen hope: Hope helps us live with a problematic present in an uncertain future. Choosing hope for the smallest range of goals is essential to control negative emotions.
- Transcendent hope, or existential hope, is the hope that is not tied to a specific outcome, but a general hope that something good can happen.
Being Hopeful: Benefits
- Hope correlates with high academic and athletic performance, greater physical and psychological well-being, better self-esteem, and increased relationships.
- Hope can enhance well-being over time.
- Hope results in the person viewing stressful situations as a challenge rather than a threat.
- Hope can be seen as creating a buffer against chronic anxiety.
- Hope is a motivational factor that sustains actions toward long-term goals.
- Hope is positively related to overall life satisfaction.
- Hope motivates individuals to maintain their positive involvement in life despite any limitations they may have.
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Having An Existential Crisis
The feeling of unease, meaninglessness and hopelessness about life, freedom and life’s choices is referred to as an existential crisis, also called existential anxiety. One feels that the foundations on which their life was built are crumbling.
This feeling arises due to loss of safety and security, transitions and difficulty in adapting, leading one to question the meaning of existence and our place in it. Example: A student moving away from home or someone going through a difficult divorce.
A Brief History Of Existential Crisis
The phrase ‘existential crisis’ has its roots on the philosophy of existentialism.
Existentialists view life in terms of meaning, freedom, isolation, death and ponder about the choices that are made everyday. They look towards problems and obstacles in a deeply penetrating way, trying to find meaning and purpose of their existence.
Symptoms And Causes Of An Existential Crisis
Common symptoms include anxiety, depression, isolation, loneliness and obsessive worry. Chronic sufferers of depression, Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and other mental disorders are more prone to an existential crisis.
Causes of an existential crisis can be the death of a loved one, serious illness, entering into a certain age-group, or having a certain traumatic experience.
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Network Effects
Network effects are the unseen forces that are guiding our destiny and exerting a powerful intervention on our lives, creating energy that escorts us down a path that is not always fully our intention.
90 percent of these network forces are established in 7 major life events or crossroads, which compound over time: Our Family, High School Network, College Network, First Job, Marriage, Our City, Reassessments.
Zipf's Law
Zipf's law is a mathematical probability that states that in a given set, the most frequently used data value (or word) is used twice as often as the next most common value. This is true in various statistical sets like income distribution in companies, internet traffic, phone calls received, and language.
One of the implications of this law is there are unconscious network forces and mathematical patterns governing our lives, with human beings just being nodes exchanging information.
Dinner Party Mathematics
When six to eight people are conversing at a dinner party, it is easy to focus on one conversation, but if the number is higher (say 15), then two-way conversations are more likely.
When groups get larger, the change is exponential, not linear, affecting one's social experience.