Key Terms
Two different, even opposite, things can be true at the same time. Example: My week has been stressful and relaxing.
What is dialectical?
When your emotion takes over you and it is hard to think rationally about consequences.
What is emotion mind?
This skill encourages us to refrain from using charged language such as "stupid" or "lazy."
What is nonjudgmentally?
These are the four skills training modules in DBT.
What is mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness?
To confirm, to corroborate, to verify, to authenticate, and to communicate understanding of another person.
What is validate?
True or False: Connecting to our wise mind does not take any practice, we should always be in wise mind.
What is false?
This skill asks us be fully present in whatever we are doing, whether we are dancing, worrying, or cleaning our kitchen.
What is participate?
True or False: All DBT skills work for every situation.
What is False?
To be participate in the present moment on purpose, without judgement.
What is mindfulness?
When you act or think about something WITHOUT emotions present or without taking your feelings into account.
What is reasonable mind?
This skill is the opposite of multitasking.
What is one-mindfully?
True or False: The Biosocial Theory holds that emotional vulnerability and impulsivity are biological and an invalidating social environment an make it very hard to regulate emotions.
What is True?
Acting without thinking it all through; escaping or avoiding emotional experiences.
What is impulsivity?
The blend of Emotional Mind and Reasonable Mind. Your own inner wisdom.
What is wise mind?
This skill focuses us on what will help us reach our goals in a given situation.
This allows us to analyze patterns in a problem behavior to work toward our goals in DBT. Hint: This may have lots of "links."
What is behavior chain or missing link analysis?
Communicating that what you or another person thinks, feels, or how they behave doesn't make sense and is considered not correct or an overreaction.
What is invalidation?
True or False: Exercises such as meditations, breathing techniques, and asking ourselves intentional questions, can help practice wise mind.
What is true?
This first skill asks us to wordlessly notice our internal and/or external experience.
The second skill asks us to put words to the experience focusing on only the facts we notice with our senses.
What is observe and describe?
The following are from what basic DBT skills training guide:
-People are doing the best they can
-People desire to improve
-People need to try harder and do better, unless they are making consistent progress
-People may not have caused their own problems, and they are responsible for solving them
What are DBT skills training assumptions?