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Summary

Aims Recap

We hope you have:

  • Defined optimism and pessimism in relation to explanatory styles.
  • Recognised the helpful and unhelpful aspects of both explanatory styles.
  • Identified that you can make changes towards gaining the benefits of an optimistic explanatory style.
  • Grasped the definition of gratitude and learnt about different activities that can help to foster gratitude.

Consider more:

1) What are the main things that you will take away from this part of the course?
2) How will having explored optimism, pessimism and gratitude help in your recovery?

Important:

You might want to make notes at this point. These may help you remember things, work out what you want or see how much you’ve changed if you read them again in a few years’ time.