Mindfulness
Emotion Regulation
Crossword Clues "S"
Potpourri
Distress Tolerance
100
You are in this state of mind when you are ruled by facts, reason, logic, and pragmatics. Values and feelings are not important.
What is Reasonable Mind?
100
These are two of the five PLEASE skills.
What are 1) treat physical illness, 2) balanced eating, 3) avoid mood-altering drugs, 4) balanced sleep, 5) exercise.
100
DBT group teaches coping ______. (6 letters)
What are skills?
100
This is a DBT tool you use to record target behaviors, skills used, urges, emotions, etc.
What is a diary card?
100
Group members made this to use in time of distress.
What is a distress tolerance kit or self-soothe kit?
200
You are using this skill when you put words to an experience.
What is describe?
200
If my emotions do not match the facts, I can use this skill.
What is opposite action?
200
This is the "S" in the PLEASE skill. (5 letters)
What is sleep?
200
This is intentionally living with awareness in the present moment without judgment and without attachment to the moment.
What is mindfulness?
200

This is the skill you are using when you think about the good and bad outcomes of tolerating and not tolerating distress. 

What is Pros and Cons?
300
This state of mind is sometimes described as "the middle path."
What is Wise Mind?
300
This is one of four Distress Tolerance skills that help manage extreme emotions. (Must only name one)
What is TIPP, Distract, Self-Soothe, or Improve the Moment?
300
This is an emotion one might feel when they think they there is something wrong with them. The feeling might be prompted by remembering they did something wrong, being invalidated, or being rejected. (5 letters)
What is shame?
300
This term means a synthesis or integration of opposites.
What is a dialectic? or dialectical?
300
This skill allows you to change how you feel by changing your facial expression.
What is Half-Smile?
400
This skill necessitates giving up being right and dropping willfulness. Hint: Julie often uses this skill with her mother.
What is effectiveness?
400
This is the skill to use when you are not sure if your emotions are set off by your interpretation of an event or by the event itself.
What is check the facts?
400
When a group member got a new fish this semester, they named it this. (5 letters)
What is Steve?
400
This snack was brought twice for amends this semester.
What is popcorn?
400
These are the two P's in the TIPP skills.
What are paced breathing and paired (or progressive) muscle relaxation?
500
Ideas for practicing this skill include building awareness while taking a slow-motion-bath, washing the dishes, or making tea.
What is One-Mindfully?
500
In the ABC PLEASE skill, this is what ABC stands for.
What is Accumulate positive emotions, Build Mastery, and Cope Ahead.
500
Being mindful of current emotions may not reduce pain, but can reduce this. (9 letters)
What is suffering?
500
This is one thing (out of several) that Julie has mentioned about the person who created DBT.
What is: Her name is Marsha Linehan? She is white? She is 74 years old? She has disclosed that she has Borderline Personality Disorder?
500

You are engaged in the type of distraction when you refocus your attention from yourself to what you can do for others. 

What is contributing?
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