Paul Bombo

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Welcome to
CN3033
Mental Wealth
and Professional
Life
 At the end of this lecture, you will be able to
• Reflect on skills you need to have
Learning • Understand why Personal Development is Important

Objectives • Reflect on Social and Emotional Intelligence.

  to support students to develop core competencies in
Objectives of their journey to graduate level employment, life-long
learning and successful lives.
MW modules
 MW & PL
(Group Project)
Skills You Need – Life Skills
 • Personal Development
• Personal skills for the mind

Personal • Stress and stress management

• Anger and aggression
Skills? • Assertiveness
• Living well, living ethically
• Cary for your body
 • Personal development is a lifelong process.

• It is a way for people to assess their skills and qualities,

Personal consider their aims in life and set goals in order to realise
and maximise their potential.
Development Read more at:
https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ps/personal-developme
nt.html
 Managing
Your Personal 1. Developing a Personal Vision

Development 2. Planning Your Personal Development

3. Starting the Improvement Process

4. Recording Your Personal Development

5. Reviewing and Revising Your Personal Development

Plans
 Managing
Your Personal 1. Developing a Personal Vision

Development • a clear idea of where you want to be in a few months

or years, and why - is a crucial part of developing this
purpose.

2. Planning Your Personal Development

• when you do want to improve particular skills,
planning will help you to achieve your goals.
Planning Your Personal Development
There are number of things that you need to include in a PDP
1. A clear vision of where you want to be and why
2. A good understanding of the skills you need to develop to
achieve your vision
3. A clear idea of the standard you need to achieve, and how
different that is from your current standard
4. A level of priority for each area
5. A detailed idea of how to get from where you are now for
each skills or area, to where you want to be
Personal Skills for the mind
1. Keeping Your Mind Healthy
2. Mindfulness Mindfulness - NHS (www.nhs.uk)
3. Reflective Practice
4. Keeping a Diary or Journal
5. Positive Thinking
6. Self-Esteem
7. Managing Your Internal Dialogue (Self-Dialogue)
8. The Importance of Mindset
9. Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
What Is NLP? | Neuro Linguistic Programming | Psychology |
NLP Academy
10. Creative Thinking
Personal Skills for the mind
11. Understanding Creative Thinking
12. Creative Thinking Techniques Memory Skills
13. Memory Skills
14. What is Anxiety?
15. 10 Steps to Overcome Social Anxiety
16. What is Depression?
17. Treatments for Depression
18. Types of Depression
19. Status Anxiety
20. Problematic Smartphone Use
21. 10 Benefits of Spending Time Alone

Read more at: https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ps/creative-thinking.html

Keeping Your Mind Healthy
 We sometimes seem to be in the middle of an
epidemic of mental health problems.
 There are higher levels of depression, anxiety and
other mental illnesses than ever before, particularly
among young people.
 The big question is whether there is anything we can
do to avoid these conditions.
 •Sound Mind, Sound Body:
•people who have chronic problems with their physical
health often also suffer mental health problems.
Keeping Your •looking after yourself physically can also make you feel
better about yourself. It is certainly easier to cope with
Mind Healthy high levels of demands on your time and energy if you
are physically fit.
•Eating the Right Food
•The Importance of Exercise
•Keeping your Mind Active
 • Social media, smartphone addiction and mental health

There is growing evidence that there is a strong association between

smartphone use, particularly social media use, and poor mental
health.

There is growing evidence that it is important to get into the habit of

Keeping Your switching off your smartphone periodically—and not just at night

Mind Healthy • The Challenge of Maintaining your Mental Health

Science, does, however suggest that there are many things that we
can do to keep mind and body as healthy as possible and contribute
to improved outcomes in the event of illness.
• Common sense suggests that it is relatively easy to eat a balanced
diet, and take exercise, and that the benefits to both mental and
physical health would more than outweigh any inconvenience.
• Turning off your smartphone periodically is also likely to pay
dividends in the longer term.
 Mindfulness
• Mindfulness is awareness of the present moment and circumstances.

• Being mindful means keeping your mind on the here and now. This can be very
calming, allowing worries and regrets to be left alone.
• Mindfulness is currently frequently discussed in the media as a treatment for
many things, including serious anxiety and depression, chronic pain, and
feelings of being overwhelmed by modern life, stress relief.

Read more at: https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ps/mindfulness.html

Mindfulness - NHS (www.nhs.uk)
 • Reflective practice is, in its simplest form, thinking about or
reflecting on what you do.
• It is closely linked to the concept of learning from
What is experience, in that you think about what you did, and what
happened, and decide from that what you would do
Reflective differently next time.
• Thinking about what has happened is part of being
Practice? human. However, the difference between casual
‘thinking’ and ‘reflective practice’ is that reflective
practice requires a conscious effort to think about events,
and develop insights into them.
• Once you get into the habit of using reflective practice,
you will probably find it useful both at work and at home
 •Many of us are aware of IQ (Intelligence Quotient). Designed
to measure intellectual intelligence, it gives a score from a
series of tests.
•A logical assumption, therefore, is that people with higher
IQs will be more successful at work and through life.

Emotional •This assumption has been proven incorrect – there is more

to success than simply being ‘clever’.
Intelligence
•Emotional Intelligence is the measure of an individual’s
abilities to recognise and manage their emotions, and the
emotions of other people, both individually and in groups.
Elements of Emotional Intelligence
 • Stress, as most people understand the term, is a reaction
to excess pressure.
• This may come from life events, work, or simply a feeling of
Stress and being a bit out of control.

Stress • The vast majority of people will suffer from stress at least
once in their lives, and many live with it much of the time.
Management • Unfortunately, too much stress can be very bad for your
health, causing long-term problems such as high blood
pressure and heart conditions.

Read more at:

https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ps/stress.html
 • Stress can be described as the distress that is caused as a
result of demands placed on physical or mental energy.
• Stress often affects behaviour, so that stress in one person
is also likely to put stress on those around them, whether
family, friends or colleagues.
• Different people find different things stressful, and can
also cope with different levels of pressure before
Stress becoming stressed
• It is therefore important to remember that stress is
personal, and not judge others by your standards of
stressfulness.
 •Stress can arise as the result of a number of factors, including
life events, work, and behaviour of others.
•From within:
•Obligation towards other students
•Perfectionism – an inability to accept that the work is
acceptable
•Inadequacy
Causes of •Inferiority
•Apprehension about changes that students life will bring
Stress •Incompetence because this is a new subject
•Trying to meet expectations of others
•Fear of failure
•Unrealistic desires or beliefs, which cause anxiety
•Inability to manage time effectively
•Personal and family relationships
•Example: I will be an Occupational Physical Therapist in
Colorado by the time I am 30 years old.
 •Personal and family relationships:
•Changing relationships with parents and relatives
•Family changes, such as pregnancy, birth, marriage,
Causes of divorce or death
•Peer pressures at university
Stress •Unsatisfactory relationships with other students or
tutors
•Problems with housemates
•Building or ending intimate relationships
 •Organisational factors:
•The demand of student life, such as independent
learning
•Having to perform beyond one’s perceived abilities
•Dealing with assessment
•Balancing the needs of successfully completing the
Causes of course with the social life

Stress •Having chosen the wrong course

•The need to undertake paid employment
•Cultural factors:
•Racial issues, such as racial discrimination
•Religious concerns, such as ignorance of religious
festivals
•Gender issues, in the form of sexual harassment…
Stressful Life events
Stressful Life events
Signs and Anxiety:
Symptoms
of Stress
Tension:
 In addition to feeling uneasy, tense and worried, physical
sensations of continued stress can include:
• Palpitations
• Dizziness
• Indigestion or heartburn
• Tension headaches

Physical Signs • Aching muscles

• Trembling or eye twitches
of Stress • Diarrhoea
• Frequent urination
• Insomnia
• Tiredness
• Impotence

Read more at: https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ps/stress.html

 • Avoid Caffeine, Alcohol, and Nicotine

• Indulge in Physical Activity

Dealing with • Get more sleep

stress – 10 • Try Relaxation Techniques
• Talk to someone
Tips • Keep stress diary
• Take control
• Manage your time
• Learn to say ‘NO’
• Rest if you are ill
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References
2. Developing Essential Study
Skills, by Elaine Payne and
Lesley Whittaker
Questions?