Describing Emotions
Things that make it more likely to experience strong emotions
Preexisting Vulnerability Factors
When checking the facts, what should be considered when analyzing your thoughts?
Judgments, black and white thinking, assumptions, and interpretations
Step 1 for problem solving
Firgure out and describe the problem
Accumulating positives can occur when?
Short & long term
Skill commonly referred to as "Ride the Wave"
Mindfulness of Current Emotion
Thoughts and beliefs about prompting events, often involving judgments
Interpretation
When are intensity and duration of an emotion justfied?
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Explain brainstorming in regards to problem solving
As many solutions as possible, no idea is "off limits" yet
Skill that focuses on caring for your mind and body
PLEASE
T/F Acting on an emotion is a choice
True
(you are not your emotion)
Ways we express emotions
Opposite action for fear
Approach/don't avoid
Prerequisite skill for problem solving
Check the facts
Values are an important part of this skill
Accumulating Positive Emtions - Long Term
Describe the skills breakdown point
Overwhelming, extreme distress, making it nearly impossible to think
A common prompting event for {this emotion} is having an important goal blocked
Anger
Opposite action for sadness
Get active
What if your solution does not work?
Go back to step 5 & choose another solution
A sense of accomplishment is core to this skill
Build Mastery
Skills to use first when emotions are extreme
Crisis survival skills from distress tolerance module
Common biological changes for {this emotion} are a fast heartbeat and feeling nauseated
Fear
Opposite action all the way
Opposite posture, facial expression, thinking, what you say, & how you say (mind and body)
Component of the model for describing emotions that problem solving targets
Prompting Event
Some prerequisite skills for Cope Ahead
Describe, Nonjudgmentally, Check the facts, Problem Solving....
Components of loving your emotions
Respect your emotion, do not judge emotion, practice willingness, radically accept your emotion