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Super-complexity

Reflects the profound intentionality in professional practice, involving sayings, doings, and relatings across time and space, contributing to the meaning and purpose of actions.

Relationality

Extends beyond interpersonal relations, encompassing the intentionality behind all interactions and communications within professional practice.

Professional knowledge and ethics

Intertwined concepts where practical reasoning plays a crucial role in decision-making processes, emphasizing the importance of what is good in determining what is right.

Situated professional practice

Emphasizes the need to explore how individuals engage in tasks within specific settings, considering time, available resources, and interactions with others.

Sayings

Cultural-discursive activities involving understandings about knowledge, norms, and communication methods within professional contexts.

Doings

Material-economic activities encompassing actions and relations involving human or non-human entities, physical artifacts, and abstract concepts.

Relatings

Social-political activities involving relationships with others, always influenced by power dynamics and mediations.

Identity foreclosure (career)

High: commitment towards the prospect of a new career identity

Low: explorative activity, having accepted the prospect of changing careers but unmotivated to start the process of job seeking

Identity moratorium (career)

Low: commitment to the prospect of a new career identity

High: level of engagement in exploring new opportunities so more knowledgeable about possible options

Identity diffusion (career)

Low: commitment towards considering a new career

Low: motivation to explore new options, overwhelmed or unaware of number of possibilities so inertia sets in

Identity achievement (career)

High: commitment to a new career identity

High: exploration of possible new career options, accepting of a new career and taking positive action to explore the job market

self-authoring

trust internal voice, build internal foundation, secure internal commitments

goleman’s 5 constructs of emotional intelligence

self-awareness, self-management/regulation, social skills, empath

Self-authoring

Process of refining beliefs, values, and relationships to shape reactions and commitments, contributing to professional identity development.

Emotional Intelligence

The self-awareness, self-management, social skills, empathy, and motivation, crucial for understanding and managing emotions effectively.

Cognitive Fusion

Being entangled with internal thoughts rather than focusing on external experiences, leading to decisions and behaviors based on internal experiences.

fusion with the past

dwelling on painful memories, rumination, regret, blame/resentment over past events, idealizing the past

fusion with the future

worrying about events that hasn’t occurred yet, worst case scenarios, anticipating failure/rejection/hurt

fusion with self-concept

negative self-judgement: negative thoughts towards self

positive self-judgement: positive thoughts towards self

overidentification with a label: i’m a x, y, z

fusion with reasons

why I can’t/won’t/shouldn’t, what might happen, failure/rejection/embarrassment

fusion with rules and judgements

how the world should be, “must/have to/unfair/wrong”, past and future

notice - diffusion strategy

Notice your thoughts; are they pictures or words, or more like a voice in your head?

name - diffusion strategy

“I’m Having the Thought That...” or, “There goes ‘radio doom and gloom.’”

normalize - diffusion strategy

Thoughts like this are normal. “These thoughts make perfect sense given what I’ve gone through; they’re a completely normal reaction.”

purpose - diffusion strategy

Reframe in terms of the mind’s purpose, its attempt to protect us & meet our needs.

workability - diffusion strategy

When you let these thoughts guide you, where do they take you? Towards the life you want, or away from it?

Values

Representations of behavior and motivation, guiding behavior change and providing a sense of purpose, essential for navigating challenges and stress.

Motivation

Internal processes energizing and directing behavior, influenced by factors like values, fears, goals, and self-efficacy, crucial for professional identity development.

Pintrich’s model of motivation

success-orientated - motivational factor

high motive for success, low fear of failure

failure avoider - motivational factors

desire to avoid failure outweighs success

overstriver - motivational factor

high in both success and fear of failure

failure acceptor - motivational factor

low in motives of success and low fear of failure; hopeless

internal factors influencing motivation

values, fears, possible selves, goals/goal setting, self-efficacy, attributions

Goal setting

Process of identifying and defining internal factors related to motivation, incorporating values and self-efficacy to set effective goals and achieve professional growth.

Vicarious experiences - self-efficacy

Observing others perform a task and comparing it to oneself, influencing self-efficacy.

Verbal persuasion - self-efficacy

Encouragement or discouragement based on performance, affecting self-efficacy.

Physiological feedback - self-efficacy

Sensations from the body and emotional arousal impacting self-efficacy.

performance outcomes - self-efficacy

positive/negative experiences influence one’s ability to perform a given task

Attribution theory

Individual's perception of the causes of success or failure, influencing approach to tasks.

attributiation

An individual’s perception of the causes of his or her own success or failure: why do individuals respond differently to the same outcomes

·      I did well because I studied really hard, I did well because I am intelligent

·      I did poorly because I was tired

·      I got the job because I was lucky

Grief

Emotional responses to loss including sadness, anger, guilt, despair, and hopelessness.

Anticipatory grief

Imagining and feeling life after a loss, experiencing a roller coaster of emotions.

Disenfranchised grief

Mourning a loss not validated by societal norms, feeling alone and misunderstood.

Echoing grief

Past experiences influencing current grief, memories from previous losses resurfacing.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross - model of grieving

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, and hope stages.

Dual process - grief model

Balancing disorder and order in grief, finding benefits from loss, and seeking personal growth.

Restorative Phase/Orientation (grief)

Engaging in new activities, establishing new roles, and considering a new pet after loss.

Loss Phase/Orientation (grief)

Processing grief, holding on to past roles, and avoiding restorative change after loss.

Mindfulness/meditation

Various meditation techniques like spiritual, focused, movement, mantra, and visualization.

Sleep/exercise/nutrition

Importance of exercise for neurogenesis and the role of neurotransmitters like glutamate, GABA, serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine.

Glutamate

stimulator that serves to amp activity in the brain and relates to signaling; primes the pump for neurons to communicate with each other

GABA

clamps down on activity between neurons; shuts the gate

Serotonin

controls/polices mood, impulsivity, anger and aggressiveness

Norepinephrine

amplifies signals that influence attention, perception, motivation and arousal

Dopamine

the reward center; considered to calm the brain and has other primary functions