PSY 480 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Future Diary, Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Brainstorming
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Emotions play a critical role in decision making for it is how we feel about the alternative answer/solutions that leads us to a decision. Insufficient attention to emotional aspects is a common problem observed in decisional models. Bring feeling and emotion to the interview/ session when you work with clients and decisions. Leon mann developed the balance sheet and future diary to help people take decisions . Decision making involves: facts of the problem, option chosen to solve it, factual outcome to the solution, emotional outcome of the solution. With this activity, emotions are stressed throughout the logical consequences strategy, For example, imagine yourself not drinking; how would you feel about yourself? . Use both here and - now emotions and those of the past and the anticipated future. Look forward to the long term benefits that will come with change.