Session 2
Paul R. Stasiewicz, Clara M. Bradizza, Kim S. Slosman in Managing Negative Emotions Without Drinking, 2018
In Session 2, you and your therapist will take a few minutes to review your goals for treatment and your therapist will explain how this treatment can help you achieve your goals. You will discuss the benefits and costs of drinking and clarify your reasons for wanting to change your drinking at this time. Also, you will begin to identify situations that pose a risk to your sobriety and learn how to use the self-monitoring record from Session 1 to examine your thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations in these situations and how they contribute to your alcohol use. Next, you will learn more about mindfulness and how it can be used to increase your awareness of the present moment. In ERT, mindfulness is used to increase your awareness and acceptance of emotions, urges and cravings, and accompanying physical sensations. Mindfulness compliments the identification of high-risk situations by increasing your awareness of external events (e.g., too many demands made upon you, a conflict with someone, being on vacation, a holiday party), as well as internal reactions (e.g., irritated, on edge, wound up, pounding heart, muscle tension) that trigger your drinking. Finally, you will learn a mindfulness technique called Object-Centered Mindfulness. The goal is to strengthen your mind’s capacity to sustain your attention to the present moment.
Professional identity in medicine
Roger Ellis, Elaine Hogard in Professional Identity in the Caring Professions, 2020
The third aspect we will consider is situational awareness and emotional intelligence (EI). EI, often measured as an EI quotient, describes a concept that involves the ability, capacity, skill or a self-perceived ability, to identify, assess and manage the emotions of one's self, of others and of groups.23 EI allows clinicians to gain greater rapport with patients that enables them to extract more valuable data, to make more informed clinical decisions. Situational awareness is defined as ‘the perception of elements in the environment within a volume of time and space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their status in the near future’.24 People with good situational awareness have a good ‘feel’ for situations and people, and events that play out due to variables the subject can control.
Managing Self-Awareness and Identity Issues Following Brain Injury
Barbara A. Wilson, Jill Winegardner, Caroline M. van Heugten, Tamara Ownsworth in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 2017
Self-awareness and self-identity are related yet distinct terms that refer to subjective experience of one's self. At a basic level, self-awareness refers to the capacity to consciously perceive one's own actions, abilities and states and to distinguish these from others, and the environment (Harter, 2012). In the context of brain injury, impaired self-awareness refers to lack of knowledge of changes in personal abilities and the implications of these changes for daily living and the future (Fleming, Strong and Ashton, 1996). Theoretical models distinguish between self-knowledge that exists prior to task performance (e.g. I get distracted easily), and the capacity to recognise difficulties online during performance (Toglia and Kirk, 2000). Accurate knowledge of personal abilities prior to performing a task supports other metacognitive skills, such as anticipation of challenges, planned use of compensatory strategies and stopping and checking for errors.
Knowledge and Perceptions of Contraceptive Health Among College Students in Vietnam and the United States
Published in International Journal of Sexual Health, 2021
Akiko Kamimura, Ha N. Trinh, Jazmine Hurley, Elizabeth Izampuye, Hanh Nguyen
The purpose of this study was to compare the knowledge, perceptions, and awareness of contraceptives among college students in Vietnam and the US. Knowledge, awareness and perceptions play a significant role in health behaviors (Simons-Morton et al., 2012). Knowledge describes acquired pieces of information that can influence a person’s decisions (Simons-Morton et al., 2012). An emotionally based evaluation of an object or action that can influence a person’s behavior toward it (Simons-Morton et al., 2012). Awareness is the state of being conscious about the existence of a person, object, or idea (Simons-Morton et al., 2012). Perception indicates how a person interprets information (Simons-Morton et al., 2012). These are cognitive factors that can affect health behaviors (Simons-Morton et al., 2012). These factors have been examined in previous studies on contraception. For example, a high rate of unintended pregnancies is believed to result from a general lack of knowledge and awareness about contraceptive methods among students (Nguyen & Vo, 2018). Marshall & Gomez found that men typically know more about popularly used contraceptive methods such as condoms and birth control pills, and less about IUDs (Marshall & Gomez, 2015). Knowledge of multiple methods of contraceptive use would give partners a wide range of options to explore and find the one most suited to their needs. In this study, levels of knowledge, awareness and positive perceptions and contraceptive methods were compared between Vietnam and the US. In addition, the association between perceptions and knowledge was examined.
Awareness of deficit following traumatic brain injury: A systematic review of current methods of assessment
Published in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 2021
Laura Brown, Jessica Fish, Daniel C. Mograbi, Giulia Bellesi, Keyoumars Ashkan, Robin Morris
Awareness is difficult to conceptualize as it can be interpreted in different ways. Several researchers consider awareness to be a complex construct with multiple aspects (see Abreu et al. (2001) and Clare (2004) for detailed reviews). Numerous theories and clinical models exist that propose multiple psychological, neuropsychological and biopsychological underpinnings of reduced awareness (see Bach & David, 2006 and FitzGerald, Carton, O’Keefe, Coen, & Dockree, 2012, for reviews). These models typically incorporate several “types” of awareness. Crosson et al. (1989) proposed the pyramid model, which was the first multi-dimensional model of awareness. This model conceptualized awareness by proposing three hierarchical levels: intellectual, emergent and anticipatory awareness, and this framework remains prevalent. In the field of TBI, awareness has been described as the ability to recognize deficits, understand their functional implications and establish realistic goals (Fleming, Strong, & Ashton, 1996). This description relates to intellectual awareness, also termed offline awareness and is often reported as “a basic understanding by patients that an impairment or deficit exists” (Abreu et al., 2001). Toglia and Kirk (2000) further define awareness as “the ability to anticipate the difficulties, recognize errors or monitor performance.” This definition relates to both anticipatory and emergent awareness respectively.
Using Virtual Simulations to Assess Situational Awareness and Communication in Medical and Nursing Education: A Technical Feasibility Study
Published in Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2020
Steven J. Anbro, Alison J. Szarko, Ramona A. Houmanfar, Amber M. Maraccini, Laura H. Crosswell, Frederick C. Harris, Michelle Rebaleati, Luka Starmer
Situational awareness is one such phenomenon, comprised of many individual responses which “attempt to explain human behavior in operating complex systems” (Endsley, 1995a, p. 32). Situational awareness is a critical skill within high-reliability organizations (HROs): organizations whose employees conduct highly technical operations in working conditions with varying levels of risk (Alavosius, Houmanfar, Anbro, Burleigh, & Hebein, 2017). The predominant conceptual model of situational awareness (Endsley, 1995a, 1995b) depicts three “levels” of awareness that build upon one another: Level 1) perception of elements in the current situation, Level 2) comprehension of the current situation, and Level 3) projection of future status. Killingsworth, Miller, and Alavosius (2016) reinterpreted Endsley’s model from a behavioral perspective. To summarize: Level 1 is conceptualized as stimulus control, conditional discriminations, and observing responses; Level 2 is conceptualized as tacting stimuli functions/features and the interlocked behavioral chains that follow; Level 3 is conceptualized as predicting responses and performance generalization across contexts. To date, methods for assessing situational awareness rely primarily on subjective measures. However, through advances in VR technology, researchers may begin studying this phenomenon more objectively, with high precision and reliability.
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