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Mike Lauria. Enhancing Human Performance in Resuscitation Part 3 – Performance-Enhancing Psychological Skills. EMCrit Blog. Published on November 22, 2015. Accessed on January 20th 2025. Available at [https://emcrit.org/emcrit/performance-enhancing-psychological-skills/ ].
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This is fantastic. Great post and many thanks.
You are most welcome. Thanks for reading!
Thanks Mike. Neat mnemonic to remember the 4 basic skills + power pose a la Amy Cuddy. I teach these skills to intensive care and ED trainees for work and exam preparation after learning that the SEALS use them. I’ve recently been experimenting with EMDR as there seems to be growing evidence to support its effectiveness. I think the 4 skills + power pose + EMDR form the basic psychological tools to fortify one’s psychological armour. Mark Divine’s material is very helpful.
Hey Robin, Thanks for commenting. Yeah, Mark Divine’s stuff is really great. He is intelligent, insightful, and well-spoken. I am particularly fond of his book, “Unbeatable Mind.” I think we would do well to adapt some of his concepts to resuscitation. Interesting that you mention the eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) approach. Most of what I have read seems to indicate that it enjoys similar results to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Therefore, I have focused primarily on CBT in the form of stress exposure training. The performance enhancing psychological skills (PEPS) that I am discussing here are taught as part… Read more »
Hi Mike Thanks for your thoughts. Like you, I have mainly used CBT in stress exposure training. I’ve always had an interest in performance psychology and originally did a course in NLP in 1994. Though I found benefit in NLP, the academic rigor for NLP was a little disappointing and my focus moved towards CBT which has much better evidence supporting it. When I first read about EMDR a number of years ago, I thought it was a ‘fringe’ therapy and paid little further attention to it. However, more recently, my interest in EMDR was re-ignited after reading a news… Read more »
That’s awesome Robin. Truly insightful. Please keep me posted if you start experiementing with the EMDR in other ways or incorporate it to augment other training modalities.
I will have to check out that book. I’ll read it at my ealiest convenience and get back to you.
Thanks again for taking the time to respond and share your ideas! Take care.
-Mike
Love these posts but you got to proof read bro! Last paragraph, “In the instance of instance of resuscitation..”
You’re a smart guy, don’t settle!
Good point, Jay. I’ll make the correction and be more careful in the future. Last thing I want to do is disappoint the EMCrit readers/listeners.