Table 1 Overview of 10 skills taught in the resilience training
From: Improving the wellbeing and resilience of health services staff via psychological skills training
Meaning making | Learn to cognitively appraise challenges and failures in a healthy and productive way through a focus on meaning |
Event-thought-reaction connections | Increase awareness of how thoughts drive reactions to events, and determine if thoughts and reactions are helping individuals work towards their goals, act upon their values, improve their performance and strengthen their relationships |
What’s most important | Increase individual awareness of what influences unproductive reactions (emotional and/or physical) that may interfere with their performance, goals or relationships |
Balance your thinking | Help individuals cognitively appraise situations in an accurate manner that is based upon evidence |
Cultivating gratitude | Build optimism, positive emotions and resilience by bringing ongoing attention to gratitude as a cognitive process |
Mindfulness | Teach individuals to regulate their attention in a focused, open and non-judgemental manner |
Interpersonal problem solving | Teach individuals the elements to address interpersonal problems in a respectful manner with healthy and productive emotional expression, and use of compromise |
Active constructive responding | Increase awareness of communication patterns and responses that maintain, strengthen, and cultivate positive and important relationships |
Capitalising on strengths | Increase individual awareness of theirs and others personal strengths, and how to apply strengths across all life domains |
Values based goals | Increases individual awareness of their values, and how to translate these values into actions and goals |