Web Exercises
Click on the following links. Please note these will open in a new window.
1. Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3303604/
This is an article on a research-based website that integrates current neurological understanding with the effective therapeutic use of mindfulness.
- Read the article for an in-depth understanding of the link between neurological functioning and therapeutic use of mindfulness techniques.
- How is the relationship between emotions and cognition conceptualized in the article?
- Write a paragraph or give a brief report to your group or class about mindfulness as a therapeutic technique and the theory of its effectiveness.
* LO 4.5 Recognize how cognitive and emotional characteristics can be involved in cognitive/emotional “disorders.”
2. The Brain: Understanding Neurobiology
https://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih2/addiction/activities/lesson1_analyzing.html
This is an introductory interactive webpage that gives basic information about the structure of the brain and location of some of its major functions.
- Click on “What Does This Part of the Brain Do?”
- Identify the structures of the brain involved with cognitive functions and with emotional functions; do these functions take place in the same part of the brain?
* LO 4.2 Define cognition and emotion.
3. Guidelines for Crisis Intervention With Survivors of Domestic Violence
http://www.endvawnow.org/en/articles/1419-crisis-intervention-model.html
This is a model advocated by the United Nations for services to survivors of domestic violence.
- Analyze the specific steps recommended in theses guidelines. How well do they address what a person “in crisis” is experiencing according to information in Chapter 4? What types of coping are being encouraged?
* LO 4.7 Summarize the role of stress, crisis, and traumatic stress in human behavior.
* LO 4.8 Analyze different styles of coping and adaptation in relation to stress.
4. Feminist Cultural-Relational Therapy (CRT)
http://www.jbmti.org/Recent-Publications/Recent-Publications/
This is the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute website. She is the principal founder of Cultural-Relational Therapy (CRT), which is based on feminist theory about self-in-relationships.
- Identify a topic of interest to you in one of the videos or book reviews posted on the site. Watch the video, or read the review. Write a paragraph or give a brief report to the class summarizing the content and comparing it with the theory of CRT as explained in Chapter 4.
* LO 4.6 Describe four theories of self-in-relationships (relational, attachment, feminist, and social identity).