What is DBT?
What does DBT stand for?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
What is core mindfulness?
Mindfulness is paying attention on purpose to what is happening right now.
What is Interpersonal Effectiveness?
Interpersonal effectiveness focuses on helping someone reach their goals, and navigating obstacles without damaging one’s self-respect or relationships.
What is Emotional Regulation?
Emotional regulation refers to the process by which individuals influence which emotions they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express their feelings.
Define Distress Tolerance
Distress tolerance is a person's ability to manage actual or perceived emotional distress. It also involves being able to make it through an emotional incident without making it worse.
What was DBT created for specifically?
Borderline Personality Disorder, BPD
Why does Mindfulness matter?
If you feel overwhelmed by your emotions, mindfulness is the magic ingredient that helps you take a step back from intense feelings.
When you can take a step back and just notice what is happening, you are much less likely to get caught up in out-of-control emotions.
What are factors reducing interpersonal effectiveness?
Lack of Skill, Worry Thoughts, Emotions, Indecision, Environment.
What are goals of Emotional Regulation?
Understanding the emotions you experience, reduce emotional vulnerability, decrease emotional suffering.
Criteria of a Crisis
short lived
stressful
wants to be resolved quickly
What is the central aim of DBT?
to replace ineffective, maladaptive, or non skilled skilled behavior with skillful responses.
What are the types of Mind?
Wise Mind, Emotion Mind, Logic Mind
What are the goals of Interpersonal Effectiveness?
Getting your objectives or goals in a situation. Getting or keeping a good relationship. Keeping or improving self-respect and liking for yourself.
What is the model of describing emotions?
1. Prompting Event
2. Interpretation of Event
3. Brain change, Face and Body Changes, Sensing, Action Urge
4. Aftereffects
What is radical acceptance? One example
Being skillful by letting go of things you can't control in order to focus your energy on what you can control; Yourself
What is a criteria of those diagnosed with BPD?
difficulty regulating their emotions
increasing with frustration and irritiabilty
ineffective attempts to copes
unstable and inappropriate reactions to problems
problems with relationships, impulsivity, depression, suicidal ideation and self harming behaviors.
What is the connection between DBT and Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is the backbone of DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy); it is the core skill that underlies all the other skill sets.
What are situations for interpersonal effectiveness?
Attending to relationships, Balancing priorities vs Demands, Balancing the Wants-To Shoulds, Building Mastery and Self Respect.
Give me a expression on Joy and an after effect of Joy
Expression: Smiling, Glowing, Being bubbly, Good feelings, hugging. Positivity
Aftereffects: Being friendly, doing nice things, Expecting to feel joyful
Self Soothe Skills Name 1 skill for each sense
Vision
Hearing
Smell
Taste
Touch
Movement
What is a cause of BPD?
This comes from a biological emotional sensitivity and growing up in an invalidating environment
Non-Judgmentally, One-Mindfully, Effectively.
Challenge this statement
If they say no, it will kill me.
Challenge 2 myths about emotion 1. There is a right way to feel in every situation 2.All painful emotions are a result of a bad attitude
1. There is no right way
2. Painful emotions can come from anywhere
ACCEPTS stands for (Name 2-3)
Activities
Contributing
Comparisons
Emotions
Pushing Away
Thoughts
Sensations