Cognitive and Mindfulness Conceptualization

This chapter focuses on helping residents increase their awareness of cognitive factors that influence emotional experience, which can contribute to either the development and maintenance of resilience or to an increased risk of burn-out. It highlights that thinking patterns develop and are maintained through experience and influence attributions and expectations that are important determinants of how one interprets experiences and interpersonal interactions. Incorporating mindfulness to increase tolerance of emotional experiences that cannot be shifted by changing cognition is discussed as a complementary approach to building resilience.