Mindfulness
Emotion Regulation
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Distress Tolerance
DBT Basics
100

This "What" skill of mindfulness involves noticing with our 5 senses 

What is Observe?

100

This core emotion motivates us to run, hide, or fight.

What is Fear?

100

This Interpersonal Effectiveness skill helps us get what we want from another person, such as obtaining our legitimate rights.

What is DEARMAN?

100
This Distress Tolerance skill involves use of cold temperatures to active the diver's response for quick anxiety relief.
What is TIPP?
100

This term describes two opposing concepts that can simultaneously be valid.

What are dialectics?

200

This mindset allows you to dialectically balance reason with emotion to respond more skillfully to problems.

What is Wise Mind?

200

This Emotion Regulation skill helps us recognize whether our response to an emotion is logical and effective.

What is Check the Facts?

200

This communication style is used when we are trying to avoid confrontation.

What is Passive?

200

Another name for Distress Tolerance skills, describing what they help us do.

What is Crisis Survival skills?

200

This individual is credited with developing DBT.

Who is Marsha Linehan?

300

This "How" skill of mindfulness involves being completely present in this one moment.

What is One-Mindfully

300

This core emotion is commonly a response to losing someone or something important to us.

What is sadness?

300

This Interpersonal Effectiveness skill helps us keep and improve existing relationships, including "validate". 

What is GIVE?
300

This Distress Tolerance skill involves a short acronym that reminds of a red sign that cautions us as we experience crisis urges. 

What is the STOP skill?

300

This theory offers an explanation for why some of us have trouble controlling our emotions and actions.

What is the Biosocial theory?

400

This "How" skill of mindfulness tells us not to attach labels to what we observe, not evaluating as good or bad.

What is "Nonjudgmentally"?

400

This Emotion Regulation skill is used when we act opposite to an emotion urge.

What is Opposite Action?

400

This Interpersonal Effectiveness skill helps us maintain self-respect in relationships

What is FAST?
400

This Distress Tolerance skill involves using our five senses to relax.

What is Self-Soothe?

400

The core dialectic of DBT involves this and change.

What is Acceptance?

500

This "What" skill of mindfulness means to throw yourself completely into activities happening here and now.

What is Participate?

500

This set of Emotion Regulation skills helps reduce our vulnerability to Emotion Mind by caring for our mental and physical health.

What is ABC/PLEASE?

500

These are the limits are rules we set for ourselves within relationships; they might be porous or rigid.

What are Boundaries?

500

This Distress Tolerance skill includes "Contributing" as part of the acronym. 

What is ACCEPTS?

500
DBT skills were originally developed as a treatment for this diagnosis.
What is BPD?
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