Definitions
Biosocial Theory
Assumptions
The 3 States of Mind
What/How Skills
100

10:45 on B days

What is the time that group starts

100

high emotionality, high emotional reactivity and slow to return to baseline

what is bio, or biological vulnerabilities

100
Unproven beliefs that we want students and staff to buy into to improve the therapeutic process

What are the DBT Assumptions

100

The state of mind you experience when you are consumed with emotion

What is Emotional Mind

100

When you label what you observe

What is the Describe skill
200

Being aware of your present moment

what is Mindfulness

200

True or False:

People rarely do the best that they can

False:

In DBT, we assume that everyone in group is doing the best that they can given the circumstances.

200

The type of decision you make when you are considering the facts as well as your feelings. A perfect combination of Emotion and Reasonable Mind

What is a Wise Mind decision

200

wordless watching

What is the Observe skill

300

Acting without thinking the consequences all the way through

what is impulsivity

300

to confirm, verify, corroborate...to communicate an understanding of one's feelings and/or thoughts

what is validation

300

True or False: teens can be bad at DBT

what is false

explanation: teens cannot fail at DBT

300

The state of mind when you are acting or thinking about something without emotions present or without taking your feelings into account

What is Reasonable Mind

300
When I throw myself into playing a sport or game

What is practicing the Participate skill

400

the five DBT modules

what are Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Walking the Middle Path, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness

400

when your social surroundings communicate that what you are feeling, thinking, or doing doesn't make sense or is considered inaccuarate or an overreaction

What is an invalidating environment

400

True or False:

Some painful experiences are more important than others

False:

the lives of group members are painful as they are being lived right now

400

Staying focused on one thing at a time

What is Attentional Control

400

Your goal is to catch these things and replace them with descriptions so you have more control over your emotions

What are judgements

500

The idea that two seemingly opposite ideas can be true at the same time

what is dialectal

500

"what i am feeling/thinking/doing is inappropriate or inaccurate"

what is self-invalidation

500

True or False: 

People may not have caused all of their own problems, and they have to solve them anyway.

True:

If you are experiencing the emotion, then you must do something to cope.

500

being aware of all things in the present moment without judgements

What is Full Awareness

500

Being effective and considering your Wise Mind goals

What is Doing What Works

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