DBT
Modules
DBT History / Facts
DBT Assumptions
Skills, etc.
100

What does DBT stands for?

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

100

What are the three minds that comprise traditional DBT?

Rational/Reasonable Mind, Emotion Mind, and Wise Mind

100

TRUE OR FALSE: Figuring out and changing the causes of behavior is more effective than judging and blaming.

True

100

TRUE OR FALSE: It's possible to solve a personal problem we have not first accepted.

False

100

This skill helps us recognize the short-term rewards related to problematic behavior, while also recognizing that even healthy change requires time, effort, energy, and getting outside of our comfort zone.

Cost Benefit Analysis 

200

The purpose of DBT is to help people create a life worth _______.

living.


200

What module focuses on improving our ability to fully participate in experiences?

Mindfulness

200

TRUE OR FALSE: DBT is just for people with severe mental health issues.

False

200

People are doing the ____ they can; however/and they can do _______.

best; better

200

This skill means fully accepting reality and letting go of bitterness or being willing to engage in an experience without trying to change it, protest it, or escape it

Radical Acceptance

300

What are the 4 modules of DBT?

Distress Tolerance

Emotion Regulation

Interpersonal Effectiveness

Mindfulness

300

What module teaches us skills that help us to tolerate crisis situations without making them worse?

Distress Tolerance

300

TRUE OR FALSE: DBT was the first psychotherapy to formally incorporate mindfulness.

True

300

People must _______ they have a problem before they can make a _______.

accept; change

300

In this skill, ________ is described as feeling frustrated and trying to change something that simply cannot be changed and ________ is described as effectively problem solving a situation

Willfulness vs. Willingness

400

What are the three minds that comprise DBT, when we are specifically talking about substance use disorders?

Addict(ed) Mind, Clean Mind, Clear Mind

400

What module focuses on helping us build skills to better navigate relationships? 

Interpersonal Effectiveness

400

DBT focuses on increasing individual's ability to cope with intense ________ in healthy ways.

emotions

400

There is no absolute _____.

Truth

400

Your DBT House had 4 levels, name each level for 100 points each.

  • Level 1: List behaviors that you are trying to master or areas of your life you want to change.
  • Level 2: List or draw emotions you want to experience more often, more fully, or in a healthier way.
  • Level 3: List all the things you feel happy about, or want to feel happy about.
  • Level 4: List or draw what a “Life Worth Living” would look like for you.
500

What does Dialectical mean? 

*Double Jeopardy: Provide the example given in group to illustrate this example*

Dialectical = two opposite ideas can be (are) true at the same time. 

500

What module helps us focus on identifying feelings and coping with difficult things?

Emotional Regulation 

500

DBT was created by Dr. ___________.

Marsha Linehan.

500

People may not have created their own ____ but they have to ____ them anyway.

Problems/Solve

500

There are four ways to deal with a problematic or painful situation (radical acceptance group). Name two of the four.

*Double Jeopardy: Name all four for double points*

  • Change the situation causing you pain (i.e. leave job or relationship)
  • Change how you see the situation or what you think about it (find upside, silver lining, meaning in the pain, what can I learn?)
  • Radically accept the situation
  • Stay stuck in suffering until you are ready to accept reality
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