Reality Acceptance Overview
Challenging Myths of IE/Goals of IE
Stuffantinople
Opening vs Focusing The Mind
Problem Solving
100
T/F: Accepting reality is the same as being in approval of it
False
100
What three types of effectiveness are there when clarifying goals?
- Relationship
- Objective
- Self-Respect
100
What is the name of this?
Ampersand
100
What is focusing the mind?
- Focusing your attention onto a single object which could be internal or external
100
What is the foundational skill to problem solving?
Check the Facts. This ensures you have the right problem situation.
200
How does DBT define suffering?
Pain + nonacceptance
200
What three skills are associated with clarifying goals?
- DEAR MAN
- GIVE
- FAST
200
What does the “P.S.” stand for in letters/emails/pigeon mail?
Postscriptum
200
T/F: Opening the mind is the same as mindlessly being in the moment and just being
False. Opening the mind is intentionally remaining open and aware to the present moment and its experience
200
T/F: emotions are always valid
True. Emotions are always valid, though not always sound.
300
What is the point of Half-Smiling and Willing Hands?
Move your body into a state of acceptance versus remaining closed off or resistant to the experience. It helps us to feel better in the moment and communicates we are okay.
300
Would I use GIVE skills or FAST skills if my priority is to feel good about myself? Why?
FAST. These skills are used to preserve self-respect. GIVE skills are used to preserve the relationship.
300
Why are previews for movies called “trailers?”
They initially came after or “trailed” the feature film
300
What are the Mindfulness "How" skills?
- Nonjudgmentally
- One-Mindfully
- Effectively
300
When life presents you with problems, how many options do you have?
Four. You can:
- Solve the problem (interpersonal effectiveness, middle path, problem-solving skills)
- Feel better about the problem (emotion regulation skills)
- Tolerate the problem (distress tolerance and mindfulness skills)
- Stay miserable (no skills)
400
Name a goal of Distress Tolerance.
- Survive crisis situations
- Accept reality
- Become free of intense emotions, urges, and desires
400
What does DEAR MAN stand for?
- Describe
- Express
- Assert
- Reinforce
- stay Mindful
- Appear confident
- Negotiate
400
What is the value of the opposite side?
2. The sum of opposite sides on a standard die always equal 7
400
Body scans would fall under opening the mind or focusing the mind? Why?
Focusing the mind
400
Name a goal of Emotion Regulation
- Understand and Name your own emotions
- Decrease the frequency of unwanted emotions
- Decrease emotional vulnerability
- Decrease emotional suffering
500
What are the Reality Acceptance Skills?
- Radical Acceptance
- Turning The Mind
- Willingness
- Half-Smiling and Willing Hands
- Allowing the Mind: Mindfulness of Current Thoughts
500
Name a goal of Interpersonal Effectiveness
- Be skillful in getting what you want and need from others
- Build relationships and end destructive ones
- Walk the middle path
500
Which of the Hawaiian islands is also known as “The Forbidden Isle?”
Ni’ihau
500
Opening the mind is most similar to which of the mindfulness “What” skills?
Observing
500
What emotion regulation skills help you to change your emotional response?
- Check the Facts
- Opposite Action
- Problem Solving