DBT Foundations
This therapy combines acceptance and change strategies to help people build a life worth living.
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)?
The DBT mindfulness skill of noticing an experience without adding judgments such as 'good' or 'bad'.
What is Observe?
This DBT skill set helps people survive a crisis without making the situation worse.
What is Distress Tolerance?
In DBT, this skill involves labeling and identifying the emotion you are experiencing.
What is Naming the Emotion?
This DBT acronym is used for making requests or saying no while maintaining self-respect.
What is DEAR MAN?
In DBT, these four broad skill areas are Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and this interpersonal-focused area
What is Interpersonal Effectiveness?
In DBT, this mindfulness skill means describing facts and experiences with words, without adding assumptions.
What is Describe?
In the STOP skill, the O stands for this.
This DBT skill helps reduce emotional vulnerability by taking care of physical health needs: treating illness, eating, avoiding drugs, sleeping, and exercising. (It's an acronym)
What is PLEASE?
In DEAR MAN, the 'D' stands for this.
What is Describe?
DBT's core philosophy asks clients to hold two seemingly opposite ideas as true at the same time.
What is dialectics?
This mindfulness skill means participating fully in the activity rather than staying on the sidelines.
What is Participate?
The 'I' in the TIP strategy uses brief intense physical activity to help change the body's arousal level.
What is Intense Exercise?
In PLEASE, the 'E' stands for.
What is Exercise?
This DBT interpersonal effectiveness skill helps you maintain relationships by being gentle, showing interest, validating others, and using an easy manner.
What is GIVE?
This DBT concept emphasizes accepting reality as it is, while still working toward meaningful change.
What is radical acceptance?
These three 'what' mindfulness skills are describe, observe, and this *third skill*.
What is Participate?
This acronym stands for the DBT crisis-survival skills that involve changing body chemistry through temperature, intense exercise, and paced breathing.
What is TIP?
This emotion-regulation strategy involves doing the opposite of what your emotion is telling you to do when the emotion doesn’t fit the facts or acting on it would be ineffective.
What is Opposite Action?
This DBT interpersonal effectiveness skill helps you maintain your self-respect by being fair, avoiding unnecessary apologies, sticking to your values, and being truthful.
What are FAST skills?
This DBT phrase/principle recognizes that clients are doing the best they can and also need to learn more effective skills.
What is "Yes, and?" OR the “both-and” stance?
These three ‘how’ mindfulness skills are nonjudgmentally, one-mindfully, and this skill, which means focusing on what works rather than being ‘right.
What is Effectively?
This distress tolerance skills means accepting reality without approving of it or saying that it's fair.
What is Radical Acceptance?
This DBT skill asks you to examine the facts of a situation to determine whether your emotional response fits the situation before deciding how to act.
What is Check the Facts?
This DBT interpersonal effectiveness skills gives you a middle group between getting everything you want and giving up everything you want.
What is Negotiation?