"What" Skills
"How" Skills
Wise Mind
Mindfulness General
DBT General
100

Noticing with your 5 senses.

What is observing?

100

Doing what works.

What is Effectively?

100

The polarized states of mind that come together to make Wise Mind.

What are Emotion Mind and Reasonable Mind?

100

These are common types of mindful movement.

What are Yoga and Martial Arts?

100

After studying multiple religions, this is the research-based philosophical tradition chosen by Marsha Linenhan as one foundational component of DBT.

What is Zen Buddhism?

200

The statement "I am noticing a feeling of sadness arising within me," is an example of this skill.

What is describing?

200

This how skills keeps you from getting stuck in the future or the past.

What is One-Mindfully?

200

DBT assumes every person has this, even if they don't know it.

What is Inner Wisdom?

200

The act of consciously focusing the mind in the present moment without judgment and without attachment to the moment.

What is Mindfulness?

200

It's the fundamental dialectic in DBT.

What is Acceptance and Change?

300

Going with the flow

What is participating?

300

Using skillful means to reach valued ends.

What is Effectively?

300

The state of mind that is cool, rational, and task focused.

What is Reasonable Mind?

300

MRI studies of these people show rapid return to calm following emotion dysregulation.

What are Buddhist Monks?

300

Living in the tension of embracing the truth of seemingly opposite points of view.

What is Dialectics?

400

These skills can be done in series and can give you distance.

What is Observe and Describe?

400

Sticking to the facts in our descriptions

What is Non-judgmental Stance?

400
This state of mind is hot, mood-dependent, impulsive, and emotion driven.

What is Emotion Mind?

400

The practice of mindfulness while sitting or standing quietly for a period of time. It is sometimes mistakenly thought to be the core of mindfulness.

What is Meditation?

400

Difficulties with emotion regulation develop out of a transaction(an interaction over time) of biological pre-disposition and an invalidating environment.

What is the Bio-Social Theory?

500

This skill is easier to do with a physical activity.

What is participating?

500

Letting go of right and wrong while acknowledging cause and effect.

What is Non-Judgmental Stance?

500

Applying knowledge, experience, intuition, and common sense in a balanced state to a situation.

What is Wise Mind?

500

Mindfulness is living with your _____  wide  ______.

What is eyes , open?

500

The therapy that changes observable, learned behaviors that are ineffective and inconsistent with our goals by using reinforcement and contingency management to replace them with effective behaviors. 

What is Behavior Therapy?

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