Two of the C's in Distract with ACCEPTS
What are "comparisons" and "contributing"?
Awareness of the present moment
What is mindfulness?
What are the 3 states of mind?
DBT balances these two issues in treatment
What are acceptance and change?
The difference between pain and suffering
What is "pain is a part of life and suffering is optional?"
Counting ceiling tiles, counting backwards from 100 by 3
What is "Thoughts" in "Distract with ACCEPTS"?
What is the dive reflex?
2 Sets of mindfulness skills
What are the "what" and "how" skills?
5 areas of dysregulation
What are emotional, behavioral, cognitive, interpersonal, and self?
What avoiding reality leads to
What is "acting impulsively"?
Weighing the advantages and disadvantages of acting impulsively versus acting skillfully
What is "Pros & Cons"?
Doing exactly what the situation calls for and being effective.
What is willingness?
Three what skills
What are observe, describe, and participate?
A method to help your body physically accept reality
What is "half smile and willing hands?"
Accepting what you cannot change
What is "Radical Acceptance?"
refusing to do what a situation calls for and not accepting reality
What is "willfulness?"
3 How skills
What are "Don't judge," "Stay Focused," and "Do What Works"
3 things we "gong" for in DBT group
This can get in the way of accepting reality
Helping ourselves to tolerate difficult situations internally with how we are thinking about the situation
What is the "IMPROVE" skills?
Making the choice to accept a situation over and over again
What is "Turning the Mind"?
The emotion that comes about when our minds get stuck in the past
What is "depression?"
The 5 sets of skills in DBT
Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Middle Path
This activity functions as a Distract with ACCEPTS skill, a TIPP skill, or the R for relax in the IMPROVE skill
What is exercise?