Students 7-1 and 7-2 comments Social Sciences Essay

This is the students post for 7-1 and 7-2 which I need comments on the questions and the questions are different. The students for 7-1 are Freddy, Dana and Kara the student for 7-2 is Kara in text citations you can use the students references if needed. I total of 4 comments they all must be their own accordance to his or her post. The questions and students post are added

7-1 question      Review the 15 common cognitive distortions from PsychCentral.com and choose one of the common cognitive distortions. Discuss how coaching could be used to help the client reconsider the cognitive distortion.

Freddy     Cognitive distortions are thoughts that cause individuals to perceive reality inaccurately. These inaccurate thoughts are usually used to reinforce negative thinking or emotions – telling ourselves things that sound rational and accurate, but really only serve to keep us feeling bad about ourselves (Grohol, 2019). After reviewing the 15 common cognitive distortions from PsychCentral.com, I chose polarized thinking. Polarized thinking consists of an individual’s perception as “black-or-white” – all or nothing. There is no gray or in between.

I believe coaching could help individuals with polarized thinking by helping them to become open-minded. It may be a difficult task at first because the client must be willing to change their thinking. For example if the client has a goal they want to achieve, polarized thinking will have them believing there is only one way to accomplish the goal and if they fail they may give up. Coaching can help them by seeing there may be another possible route or journey that could lead them to success even though they have failed trying it one way. The coach would be there to provide the support and guidance that the client needs to help them improve and achieve their goals.

Reference:

Grohol, J. M., (2019). 15 common cognitive distortions. Retrieved from https://www.psychcentral.com/lib/15-common-cognitive-distortions/

Dana     Emotional Reasoning (Grohol, 2019): While coaching a client who has challenges with this distortion, I would help them to focus on what they want the outcome to be instead. For example, if the client is going to reason that a situation must be true, then I would help the client to focus on a positive outcome being true versus a negative outcome. When the client says if I feel that XYZ is thinking this bad thing about me, then it must be true. I would coach the client by asking him/her, what if XYZ is thinking great things about you and you are assuming the worse?

 If the clients is going to have a negative thought that he/she believes to be true, why not have a positive thought that to be true is what I will share with and coach my client into believing. This way the client can focus more on better outcomes than outcomes that can be less favorable even if it is not true. I would share that if their emotions are a reflection of what things are then why not have more positive emotions? Grohol (2019) states that “a person who engages in emotional reasoning assumes that their unhealthy emotions reflect the way things really are”. For this reason, I would coach the coachee to reason for better things to be as they are.

Bottom line is that I will coach the coachee to practice being mindful of the current thoughts in order to channel them into new positive thoughts for that he/she really wants. By doing so, the coachee will be able to expand his/her personal beliefs to promote success versus having beliefs that interfere with success (Ades, 2013).

Ades, K. (2013). How to tame a wild elephant. T+D, 67(12), 38–42.

Grohol, J. (2019). 15 Common Cognitive Distortions. Psych Central. Retrieved on March 2, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/lib/15-common-cognitive-distortions/

Kara Cognitive distortions can be corrected over time. Cognitive distortions are habitual ways of thinking that are often inaccurate and negatively biased. Coaching has been successful in helping people identify cognitive distortions and retrain themselves to look at the world in a clearer, more rational way.

Emotional reasoning is the false belief that your emotions are the truth — that the way you feel about a situation is a reliable indicator of reality. While it’s important to listen to, validate, and express emotion, it’s equally important to judge reality based on rational evidence. emotional reasoning is a common cognitive distortion. It’s a pattern of thinking that’s used by people with and without anxiety or depression.

Reference:

What Are Cognitive Distortions and How Can You Change These Thinking Patterns? (n.d.) Retrieve from: https://www.healthline.com/health/cognitive-distortions#bottom-line

7-2 question     Describe the importance of emotional intelligence in coaching executives/organizational teams in an organizational settings. Recommend coaching strategies for improving levels of emotional intelligence.

Kara     Emotional intelligence is defined as the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, as well as recognize and influence the emotions of those around you. Self-awareness is at the core of everything. It describes your ability to not only understand your strengths and weaknesses but to recognize your emotions and the effect they have on you and your team’s performance. Working with colleagues who aren’t self-aware can cut a team’s success in half and, according to Eurich’s research, lead to increased stress and decreased motivation. In order to bring out the best in others, you first need to bring out the best in yourself, which is where self-awareness comes into play. One easy way to assess your self-awareness is by completing 360-degree feedback, in which you evaluate your performance and then match it up against the opinions of your boss, peers, and direct reports. Through this process, you’ll gain insights into your own behavior and discover how you’re perceived in the organization.

 Reference:

Landry.L.Emotional Intelligence in Leadership: Why It's Important. (2019, April 3). Retrieved from https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/emotional-intelligence-in-leadership