The courage to stay in the moment

Bacha, Claire

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“…In contrast to its questionable role as part of courage as an accolade, fear plays a very prominent role in the conception of courage used in psychotherapy, a field that aims to change behavior by understanding and altering the process by which people experience and interact with themselves and the world. Analytic theorists (e.g., Bacha, 2001;Gans, 2005) have described courage as a helpful and possibly necessary part of engaging in the psychotherapeutic process. According to this approach, it requires psychological courage (Putman, 2004) to face unpleasant facts in the service of emotional recovery.…”

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“…Facing such facts is essential to this process, but often is a source of intense fear and anxiety. Bacha (2001) proposed that facing these facts might be a part of therapeutic change, including being willing to examine one's underlying psychological structures, mourning the past and accepting that some possibilities are lost, and moving from the familiar to the unfamiliar. The disclosure and confrontation of pain in psychoanalytic group work, according to Gans (2005), requires courage from patients that should be acknowledged by therapists.…”

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Is courage an accolade or a process? A fundamental question for courage research.

Pury

Starkey

2010

The Psychology of Courage: Modern Research on an Ancient Virtue.

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Courage has been described as a human virtue by philosophers across time and cultures (e.g., Dahlsgaard, Peterson, & Seligman, 2005;Miller, 2002). It figures prominently in positive psychology's science of virtue (e.g., Peterson & Seligman, 2004), and interest in courage as a topic of psychological study has grown with the field of positive psychology. However, what psychologists mean by the term courage has varied, and this variation has important consequences for understanding the construct. We therefore asked ourselves the following questions: Do we see courage as rare, lofty, and worthy of societal acknowledgment, which we view as part of courage as an accolade, or do we see courage as something that occurs many times in the typical person's life, a process, perhaps the process, by which people overcome subjectively felt risks for compelling reasons? Though desirable, most of the acts that fall under this second type of courage, which we call courage as a process, may pass unnoticed by observers and are not typically deserving of societal recognition.Courage can be defined in many ways. Norton and Weiss (2009) described courage as "persistence or perseverance despite having fear" (p. 214, emphasis in the original). Pury and Woodard (2009) defined it as "the intentional pursuit of a worthy goal despite the perception of personal threat and uncertain outcome" (p. 247). Peterson and Seligman (2004) defined courage as "emotional strengths that involve the exercise of will to accomplish goals in the face of opposition, external or internal" (p. 29). Finally, in the most comprehensive study of the definition of courage, Rate, Clarke, Lindsay, and Sternberg (2007) used a multimethod approach to develop a definition of courage as "(a) a willful, intentional act, (b) executed after mindful deliberation, (c) involving objective substantial risk to the actor, (d) primarily motivated to bring about a noble good or worthy end, (e) despite, perhaps, the emotion of fear" (p. 95).The first two definitions focus on courage as a process. In Pury and Woodard's (2009) work the definition is general. Pury and Woodard highlighted the importance of the worth of the goal and two unknowns-risk to the actor and completion of the task-without any particular behavioral or emotional response described. Norton and Weiss's (2009) definition is directed at the specific case of predicting performance during an exposure-like exercise for phobias. 67

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Is courage an accolade or a process? A fundamental question for courage research.

Pury

Starkey

2010

The Psychology of Courage: Modern Research on an Ancient Virtue.

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“…Although psychological courage can manifest itself in many situations, it has thus far been described primarily in a clinical context (Pury & Starkey, 2010). For example, in psychoanalytical therapy, facing unpleasant facts about oneself is regarded as essential in emotional healing, while at the same time being a source of intense anxiety (Bacha, 2001). The same applies to cognitive-behavioral therapy, where the patient may have to deal with threatening stimuli (Rachman, 2004).…”

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Facing Fear with Courage: Psychometric and Behavioral Evidence of the Courage Measure (CM) in Poland

Pajestka

2023

rpsych

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The Courage Measure (CM), developed by Norton and Weiss (2009) has proved to be a significant predictor of a behavioral approach in a fear-eliciting situation. The current research project aimed to replicate this result, using a shortened version of the scale, whose psychometric superiority over the full version has been supported by previous studies. For this purpose, in Study 1 the psychometric properties of the Polish version of the CM (CM-PL) were analyzed; the results supported its unidimensional structure and measurement invariance across gender groups, as well as good internal consistency. Study 1 also provided preliminary evidence of the convergent, concurrent and divergent validity of CM-PL, showing its relation to resilience, grit, risk-taking and the Big Five personality traits. In Study 2, 31 participants with an elevated fear of spiders completed a behavioral approach test in which they moved ever closer to a display of taxidermied spiders. The results showed that the CM-PL significantly moderated the relationship between anxiety/distress and the behavioral approach, confirming its relation to real behavior. Overall, the results confirmed that CM-PL is a valuable measure that can be useful in scientific research and psychological practice (i.e., counseling and psychotherapy).

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Enhancing Therapist Courage and Clinical Acuity for Advancing Clinical Practice

Vargas

2019

Journal of Family Psychotherapy

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The courage to stay in the moment

Cited by 7 publications

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Is courage an accolade or a process? A fundamental question for courage research.

Is courage an accolade or a process? A fundamental question for courage research.

Facing Fear with Courage: Psychometric and Behavioral Evidence of the Courage Measure (CM) in Poland

Enhancing Therapist Courage and Clinical Acuity for Advancing Clinical Practice

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