CBT
What are the three components that make up the CBT triangle?
Thoughts, feelings, behaviors
What does the word "dialectical" mean in the context of DBT?
The balance of opposing forces. Two things that seem like opposites and both be true at the same time and coexist.
What does the acronym, "ACT" stand for?
Acceptance and commitment therapy
Name two commonly diagnoses anxiety disorders
1. GAD
2. Social anxiety disorder
3. Panic Disorder
4. Specific phobia
Name 3 symptoms of depression.
1. Lack of motivation (avolition)
2. Lack of pleasure in activities (anhedonia)
3. Increased sadness or guilt
4. Fatigue
5. Lack of concentration
6. Moving more quickly/slowly than normal
7. Suicidal ideation
8. Hopelessness
What is another name for "thoughts?"
Cognitions
Who is the creator/founder of DBT?
Dr. Marsha Linehan and the University of Washington
Having a clear understanding of what you want your life to be about- directions rather than goals
Values
Although not anxiety disorders themselves, these disorders are highly co-occurring and closely related to anxiety. Identify one.
1. MDD
2. OCD
3. PTSD
This disorder involves depression episodes and/or manic/hypomanic episodes.
Bipolar 1 or bipolar 2 disorder
This intervention includes gradually increasing engagement in valued, routine and enjoyable activities to help decrease depression over time.
Behavioral Activation
What are the four main components of DBT?
1. Emotion Regulation
2. Distress Tolerance
3. Mindfulness
4. Interpersonal effectiveness
Defusion
Name 3 physical/physiological sensations often associated with anxiety
1. Muscle tension
2. Increased heart rate
3. Shaking/trembling
4. Sweaty
5. Nausea
These types of medications are commonly used to treat depression and involve blocking the reabsorption of serotonin, increasing neurotransmitter activity, and gradually improving mood regulation.
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs
This type of therapeutic intervention is used to assist with habituation to feared stimuli. The more you are gradually exposed to something over time, the less your respond to it.
Exposure therapy or exposure response prevention/ERP.
These skills focus on finding meaning in pain and suffering. They consist of allowing painful emotions to be present during life and to embrace change. One must embrace these skills entirely through mind, body and spirit. Examples include going with the flow and the idea of "it is what it is".
Reality acceptance skills
This is a metaphor often used in meditation as a way to think about thought defusion.
Leaves on a stream
This anxiety related term involves worry or dread for something anticipated in the future
Apprehension
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These are considered to be maladaptive thinking styles and can contribute to further rumination and worry. Examples include all-or-nothing thinking and catastrophizing.
Cognitive distortions or thinking errors
This distress tolerance skill is focused on not making a crisis situation worse than it already is. Parts of this skill include imagery, prayer and taking a brief vacation from the moment.
The IMPROVE the moment skill
Name three common parts of ACT or three parts of the ACT hexaflex.
1. Acceptance
2. Present moment
3. Defusion
4. Self-as context
5. Values
6. Committed action
These types of controlled medications provide quick and rapid relief for symptoms of panic or high anxiety by slowing down the central nervous system. These medications are often misused.
Benzodiazepines.
This kind of treatment is FDA approved and involves using magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the areas of the brain most associated with mood. This was first used for people who depression who did not have success with most SSRI medications.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation or TMS