Life Skills
This skill involves organizing your time and responsibilities to meet goals.
What is time management?
This DBT skill focuses on staying present in the moment.
What is mindfulness?
This step encourages discovering your own truth rather than accepting others’ beliefs blindly.
What is Step 1?
This is the body’s adaptation to a substance, requiring more to achieve the same effect.
What is tolerance?
This stage of relapse is marked by isolation, poor self-care, and bottling up emotions.
What is emotional relapse?
This life skill helps you express your needs, wants, and boundaries clearly.
What is assertive communication?
This skill helps individuals tolerate distress without making things worse.
What is distress tolerance?
This step focuses on reclaiming your power and self-esteem.
What is Step 2?
This occurs when the body experiences symptoms after stopping a substance.
What is withdrawal?
This stage involves thinking about using, romanticizing past use, or planning relapse.
What is mental relapse?
This skill involves making choices by weighing pros and cons.
What is decision-making?
This DBT module focuses on managing intense emotions.
What is emotion regulation?
This step involves examining beliefs, behaviors, and patterns honestly.
What is Step 5?
This part of the brain is heavily involved in addiction and reward.
What is the reward system (or limbic system)?
This stage is the actual act of returning to substance use.
What is physical relapse?
This life skill includes budgeting, saving, and managing expenses.
What is financial management?
This skill teaches how to ask for what you need and say no effectively.
What is interpersonal effectiveness?
This step emphasizes setting healthy boundaries in relationships.
What is Step 8?
This term describes compulsive substance use despite harmful consequences.
What is addiction?
This coping strategy involves reaching out to supportive people when experiencing urges.
What is seeking support (or using a support system)?
This skill helps you handle conflict in a calm and respectful way.
What is conflict resolution?
This DBT acronym skill involves Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, and Paired muscle relaxation.
What is TIPP?
This step encourages living in a way that supports self-care and spiritual growth.
What is Step 16?
Mixing substances like alcohol and opioids increases risk of this life-threatening condition.
What is overdose?
This acronym reminds individuals to check if they are Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired—common relapse risks.
What is HALT?