Mindfulness/Dialectics
What are the Three States of Mind?
Reasonable Mind, Emotion Mind, and Wise Mind
Name one reason we bother tolerating painful feelings and urges.
Distress Tolerance Handout 1, pg.1
PLEASE skill helps address our vulnerabilities. What does the acronym PLEASE stand for.
Physical Illness, Balance Eating, Avoid Mood altering Drugs, Balance Sleep, Exercise
One DBT Assumption that we abide by is....
Under Orientation Handout 5 pg.5 there are 8 to choose from
Crisis Survival Skills are skills that we use when we want to avoid making a situation worse, we are in emotion mind and our brain is not processing information. We want to change our body chemistry to reduce emotion mind by using the _ _ _ _ skill
TIPP (temperature, intense exercise, paced breathing, and progressive muscle relaxation)
Validation does not equal _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Validation does not equal AGREEMENT
Dialectical means...
Dialectical means that two opposite ideas can be true at the same time, and when considered together, can create a new truth and a new way of viewing a situation.
When you can't solve the problem or change your emotions about the problem, we can try _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ as a way to reduce our suffering.
When you can't solve the problem or change your emotions about the problem, we can try RADICAL ACCEPTANCE as a way to reduce our suffering.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ communicates to another person that his or her feelings, thoughts, and actions make sense and are understandable to you in a particular situation.
VALIDATION communicates to another person that his or her feelings, thoughts, and actions make sense and are understandable to you in a particular situation.
When I am practicing the "What" Skills of Mindfulness I am doing the following. I first _ _ _ _ _ _ _ the present moment with my five senses, then I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ the experience with words, and finally I can _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ by throwing myself into the present moment fully.
When I am practicing the "What" Skills of Mindfulness I am doing the following. I first OBSERVE the present moment with my five senses, then I DESCRIBE the experience with words, and finally I can PARTICIPATE by throwing myself into the present moment fully.
Another crisis survival skills included self-soothe. We self-soothe with our....
Six Senses- vision, smell, touch, hearing, taste, movement
What good are emotions for us? List the three ways emotions help us.
Emotions give us information, emotions communicate to and influence others, emotions motivate and prepare us for action.
What are the three "How" Skills of Mindfulness?
DONT JUDGE, you can notice but not evaluate. STAY FOCUSED by doing only one thing in this moment. DO WHAT WORKS by being effective to achieve your goal.
We distract ourselves from painful emotions by using our Wise Mind ACCEPTS skill. What does ACCEPTS stand for and give one example for each?
Distress Tolerance Handout 3, pg. 3
Name one thinking mistake.
Walking the Middle path handout 3, pg. 4