Model for Describing Emotions
This experience of our emotion involves changes in our brain and internal bodily experiences
What are BIOLOGICAL CHANGES
What is OPPOSITE ACTION TO FEAR
What is SADNESS
This skill involves weighing the pros and cons for 1-2 potential solutions.
What is PROBLEM SOLVING
This faulty belief involves seeing things in extremes - good or bad, right or wrong.
This component of our emotions involves how we publicly communicate our feelings through our face, body language, words and actions.
What is our EXPRESSIONS
Acting opposite to this emotion involves getting active, avoid avoiding, and increasing pleasant events.
What OPPOSITE ACTION to SADNESS
This emotion organizes our responses to threats to our life, health, or well-being. It focuses us on escape from danger.
What is FEAR
This skill involves increasing pleasurable experiences in the present moment by doing one thing now.
What is ACCUMULATING POSITIVE EMOTIONS: SHORT TERM
This faulty belief is when we make irrational assumptions about the future or what other people are thinking.
What is JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS (Mind reading and Prediction)
This component of our emotions involves bodily messages or urges to respond.
What is ACTIONS (or behaviors)
Acting opposite to this emotion involves moving closer to what you are repulsed by and being kind to those you feel contempt for.
What is OPPOSITE ACTION to DISGUST
This emotion organizes responses to others who threaten to take away relationships or things very important to us. It focuses us on protecting what we have.
What is JEALOUSY
This skills helps us reduce vulnerabilities to emotion mind by taking care of our body
What are PLEASE skills
Thinking, "I feel overwhelmed and hopeless, therefore the situation must be impossible to change or improve.”
What is EMOTIONAL REASONING
These conditions or events make us more sensitive to and reactive to our emotions and can occur shortly before a prompting event or in the distant past.
What is PREEXISTING VULNERABILITY FACTORS
Acting opposite to this emotion involves avoiding rather than attacking, taking a time out, and being kind.
What is OPPOSITE ACTION to ANGER
This emotion organizes responses related to specific actions that have led to violation of values. It focuses us on actions and behaviors that are likely to repair the violation.
What is GUILT
What is COPE AHEAD
Thinking, "It's my fault that she isn't working harder to help herself."
What is PERSONALIZATION
This step in the model is required in order to prompt an emotion.
What is ATTENTION/AWARENESS
Acting opposite to this emotion involves counting your blessings and inhibiting urges to destroy things.
What is OPPOSITE ACTION to ENVY
This emotion organizes responses related to personal characteristics or our own behaviors that are dishonoring or sanctioned by our own community. It focuses us on hiding transgressions and, if these are already public, engaging in appeasement-related behaviors.
What is SHAME
This skill involves selecting a medium level goal we want to achieve in order to provide a sense of accomplishment.
Thinking, "I should feel better by now. I've been in treatment for 2 months! I'll NEVER feel happy again." (2 CD)
What is SHOULDING AND OVERGENERALIZATION