DBT Basics
TRUE or FALSE: Invalidation is never helpful.
What is FALSE?
This city is known as the "“Barbeque Capital of the World".
Kansas City, MO.
True or False: Crisis Survival skills should be used all the time.
False! They are only for crisis situations where other coping skills aren't appropriate.
This is what you call a baby kangaroo.
A Joey!
TRUE or FALSE: The goal of emotion regulation is to never experience unpleasant emotions again.
What is false?
This is what DBT stands for.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy?
This is the most popular flavor of ice cream.
A) Vanilla. B) Mint chocolate chip C) Chocolate. D) Pistachio.
This is the ability to tolerate and survive crisis situations without making things worse.
What is distress tolerance?
This painter created the Mona Lisa.
Who is Picasso?
Name two factors that may make it difficult for someone to regulate their emotions.
Biology, lack of skill, reinforcement of emotional behavior, moodiness, emotional overload, believing emotion myths.
This is the act of consciously focusing the mind in the present moment, without judgement and without overattachment.
What is mindfulness?
This US state has the highest temperatures (on average). A) California B) Alaska C) Florida D) Mississippi.
What is Florida?
Name three of the four parts of TIPP skills.
Tipping the temperature, intense exercise, paced breathing, paired muscle relaxation.
This is the longest river in the United States.
What is the Missouri River?
Name 2/4 parts of GIVE.
G: (Be) Gentle.
I: (Act) Interested.
V: Validate
E: (Use an) Easy manner.
Name at least three of the seven parts of DEAR MAN.
D: Describe.
E: Express.
A: Assert.
R: Reinforce.
M: (Stay) Mindful.
A: Appear Confident.
N: Negotiate.
This is what a group of lions is called.
What is a pride?
This is what radical acceptance is.
Complete acceptance of your reality.
Does NOT mean approval or love for a situation, just that you will no longer fight reality and suffer unnecessarily.
This singer is referred to as "The Rocket Man."
Who is Sir Elton John?
This is the inner wisdom each one of us has. This is the integration of opposites (for example, the balance of reasonable and emotional states of mind).
What is Wise mind?
This is the overall goal of DBT skills training.
What is to improve resilience and to learn how to change your own behaviors, emotions, and thoughts linked to problems in living (and that are causing misery and distress)?
This is the color flamingos are when they are born.
A) Pin. B) Black C) Gray D) Blue.
What is gray?
These are the goals of distress tolerance skills (name 2/3 we discussed).
What is 1) Survive crisis situations 2) Accept Reality 3) Become Free from your own desires, urges, and emotions.
This is what we call a group of deer:
A troop, a pod, a herd, an army.
What is a herd?
List four of the six parts of the PLEASE acronym
treat PhysicaL illness, balance Eating, avoid mood-Altering substances, balance Sleep, get Exercise.