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Transforming Our Lives through Self Reflection and Psychology
A psychology professor's collection of lessons fostering self-discovery through online activities, hands-on classroom experiences, engaging lectures, and effective discussion prompts.
Class-Specific Teaching Resource
Mental Health and Wellness
What can we do when our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors aren’t helpful? How did our minds go awry? And how can therapy help?
I love how primary and secondary schools have begun teaching mental health skills with Social Emotional learning. To me, it deserves to be a core subject as central to our lives as math and reading. Applying knowledge to real world contexts is a struggle in any subject. But I personally feel applying mental health to myself is the hardest. Therapy - an outside expert reflecting back to us with compassion, and without our distortion, can be transformational. I hope you'll seek help when you need it, find self-compassion for yourself, and consider mental health careers connecting with others who struggle like us.
Jules, Euphoria
F#@% Anyone Who Isn't a Sea Blob, therapy between seasons
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The story of Wing Biddlebaum is a story of hands. Their restless activity, like unto the beating of the wings of an imprisoned bird, had given him his name. ... The slender expressive fingers, forever active, forever striving to conceal themselves in his pockets or behind his back, came forth and became the piston rods of his machinery of expression.
Attachment Styles - Getting Stuck in Unhelpful Boxes
Teach and learn about Attachment Styles, and especially how we get stuck reenacting unhelpful patterns based on John Bowlby's concept of canalization, a kind of confirmation bias.
How Do We Know When We're Being Ourselves?
Most of us have moments when we feel completely genuine. And other moments when we wonder if we're acting out of habit, expectation, or something else entirely. What does it actually mean to be authentic? Explore eight facets of authenticity.
Our Mental Health is No Laughing Matter!
Actually, maybe it is? Being able to joke together about our therapy, and about our struggles can be - Therapeutic.
Are You Fully Present in the Moment?
Are you fully present in this very moment, attending to exactly what you're doing, aware of thoughts, feelings, and sensations inside you and aware of your body in the world around you? | Psychology Key Concepts: Mindfulness; Awareness; States of Consciousness
Faces of Feeling: Universality of Basic Emotions
What emotions are on people's faces? Can people conceal emotions on their faces? Does another persons ages, gender, and ethnicity impact how you read emotion? | Psychology Key Concepts: Basic Emotions; Facial Processing
Learn Different Lessons from the Same Experience?
Everyone is motivated by contingencies, like reinforcement and punishment. But why doesn’t everyone respond the same way when experiencing the same kind of conditioning? | Psychology Key Concepts: Sensitivity to Reinforcement; Sensitivity to Punishment; Behaviorism
Are Eyes Windows to the Soul?
What emotions do we see in people's eyes? What does your ability say about how emotions and understanding how mental states work? | Psychology Key Concepts: Emotion; Theory of Mind; Mentalism; Mental States; Autism Spectrum
Why Doesn't Talent Tell the Whole Story? Beyond IQ
There's more to success than intelligence and personality traits like conscientiousness. How we understand our experiences and our orientation toward success and failure matters too. | Psychology Key Concepts: Locus of Control; Self-Efficacy; Growth Mindset; Fixed Mindset
What Solving Puzzles Reveals, and What They Don’t
Three quick puzzles - math, analogies, and visual patterns - explore how different kinds of thinking connect. Reflect on your performance and feelings to learn what psychology says about intelligence and test anxiety. | Psychology Key Concepts: Intelligence, IQ, Stereotype Threat