Training Your Brain To Adopt Healthful Habits: Mastering The Five Brain Challenges
Language: English
Published by Institute for Disease Management, 2019
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- Title
- Training Your Brain To Adopt Healthful Habits: Mastering The Five Brain Challenges
- Author
- Trafton Ph.D., Jodie A; Gordon Ph.D., William P; Misra Sc.D., Supriya
- Publisher
- Institute for Disease Management
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0983246521
- ISBN 13
- 9780983246527
The program focuses on mastering five key brain challenges:
- Learning to highly value behaviors that promote wellness while devaluing behaviors that lead to poor health.
- Enriching one’s life to tame the need for immediate gratification.
- Enhancing resiliency to threats and chronic stressors.
- Training one’s addiction circuits that respond to drugs as well as “comfort foods” to make healthful behaviors habitual.
- Making flexible decisions to empower the prefrontal cortex to make healthful choices.
Participants completing the program should be able to:
- Identify how the brain weighs options when making health-related decisions.
- Discuss how opportunities for reward get overvalued.
- List social factors that can overvalue habits and sabotage our health.
- Describe how the brain’s reward system is sabotaged by addictive substances.
- State how we can correct value estimates, including reframing and challenging expectations.
- Discuss how impulse control is affected by neuronal processes.
- Outline several ways that illustrate how life enrichment improves impulse control.
- Define and give examples of reward deficiency syndrome.
- Describe how chronic stress increases the need for immediate gratification.
- List several effects of adverse early childhood experience on adult stress.
- List several ways to develop greater stress resilience.
- Compare and contrast habits that can be automatic from those that are acquired.
- Provide three examples of how we learn new behaviors.
- List several ways for how new behaviors can turn into old habits.
- Explain why willpower is not enough.
- Describe how problem-solving skills can develop and can disappear.
- List several ways to improve problem-solving and cognitive skills.
- Summarize key principles using the example of weight loss.
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