This practice teaches people to pay careful attention to their thoughts and observe them as separate from themselves, without identifying with their meaning.
What is Mindfulness?
This skill involves acknowledging reality exactly as it is, even if you hate it.
What is Radical Acceptance?
Rather than viewing things in extremes of black and white, this type of thinking encourages people to recognize there is more than one way to view a situation.
What is Dialectical thinking?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is originally based out of this widely used form of therapy.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This state of mind is the integration between the Logical/Rational mind and the Emotional mind.
What is Wise Mind?
This distress tolerance skill involves temporarily shifting your attention away from a crisis until you are calm enough to handle it.
What is Distraction?
Dialectical thinking teaches us that opposites can hold, meaning you can love someone while also recognizing this negative truth.
What is "recognizing that their choices are hurting you"?
DBT focuses on teaching people skills to manage intense emotions, cope with challenging situations, and improve this third area of life.
What are their relationships?
The three "what" skills are observe, describe, and...
What is participate?
What is the TIP method?
Take a step back, Identify options, and Pick a Pro/Con list.
When someone gets a reward after doing something, making them more likely to do it again, it is called this.
What is Positive Reinforcement?
She is the psychologist who created Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Who is Marsha Linehan?
These three "How" skills teach us the attitude to use while being mindful: Monitoring our subjective labels, focusing on one thing at a time, and doing what works.
What are Non-judgmental, One-minded, and Effectively?
This word means doing exactly what is needed in the current situation
What is Willingness
This happens when a behavior is rewarded by taking away something annoying (like putting on your seatbelt to stop the car from beeping).
What is Negative Reinforcement?
This theory explains that intense emotions happen because of two things combined: how our bodies are wired (biology) and how we grew up (our social environment).
What is the Biosocial Theory?
This mindfulness attitude involves looking at a situation as if you are seeing it for the very first time, dropping your past assumptions.
What is Beginner's Mind?
The acronym "IMPROVE the moment" includes replacing a negative moment with positive Imagery, Meaning, Pause, Relaxing actions, One thing in the moment, Vacation, and this "E" word.
What is Encouragement?
This technique involves rewarding small, baby steps that get you closer to a big goal, instead of waiting for perfection.
What is Shaping?
The ultimate goal of DBT is not just to stop feeling bad, but to build this type of fulfilling life.
What is a "Life Worth Living"?