Positive Psychological Traits with Dr. Jerrod Brown
00:00 Kathleen: Hi, Kathleen Guire here. Welcome to Trauma-Informed Parenting. We have Dr. Jerrod Brown back, which I’m really excited about because this is going to be a very positive episode. He’s going to talk about positive psychological traits, and I’m excited to hear what he has to say. I’ve got my notepad ready. I’m ready to take notes. So Dr. Jerrod, take it away.
Dr. Jerrod: Hey Kathleen, thanks for having me back. Anyone who’s ever heard me talk on your podcast, we talk a lot about some tough stuff as well, so this will be a nice change of pace where we’re just going to be focusing on things we can do in our own lives and with our kids and people we work to promote positive thinking, a positive mindset, and a lot of this comes out of the positive psychology research.
If you’re interested in learning more about these topics look at positive psychology. There’s a lot of good articles you can find online, books, different kinds of resources. When you study positive psychology, you are going to want to learn about resilience. We’ll talk about resilience today. We’ll talk about self-control, having greater self-compassion.
All of these things can promote positive mental health. It can help us better manage our mood and our emotions and really create more life satisfaction for us. It’s also been linked to having greater satisfaction and well-being within the entire family system. So parents who infuse these into your parenting practices, they’re really linked to wonderful outcomes for your kids as well.
Any time we can infuse positive psychological traits into parenting practices typically children can have better developmental outcomes. Just some of the things you’d want to consider, which we’ve talked a lot about in other episodes: utilizing trauma-informed care approaches, attachment-based approaches, using non-shame-based approaches, so really focusing on parental warmth, guidance, and love and being really mindful of our voice tone.
Also, having good self-control. Maybe we’re stressed out, but we have good self-control where we know how to put the brakes on, pause, reflect, take breaks, know when we’re on overload and now is the time not to engage in some really difficult situation. Just take a step back and maybe go for a walk, take a nap, have a glass of water or whatever you do.
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