Directed Attention | Origin: CS124
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Resilience Building Strategies for Career Support Professionals --> Directed Attention
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This module helped reinforce the importance of balancing perspective and not allowing negative thoughts to become exaggerated distractions that keep us stuck in discouragement. The “three good things” exercise showed how intentionally focusing on positive progress or small successes can help redirect attention toward solutions and growth instead of negativity cycles. In career services, I think this can be especially helpful when supporting students through rejection or uncertainty by encouraging them to recognize their progress, stay motivated, and continue adapting to challenges in a healthy and productive way.
trying to maintain control is essential to be effective. You not only need to control how to manage day to day, but its helpful to build anxiety prevention for both advisor & students.
Three Good Things is an excellent way to get someone in a negativity bias on the right track. I will be using the worksheet and the mentality with my students who seem stuck in what hasn't been working for them, and try to enforce the elements that have positively impacted them and made them stronger for the next interview, etc.
I loved the Three Good Things doc that was provided! I will be using that with students of my own.
The balance between positive and negative biases play a crucial role in helping my students with placement in their industry. In order to provide this support for students, I must also maintain the same balance for myself.
