What is DBT?
The "D" in DBT stands for this.
What is Dialectical?
Name at least 3 reasons for why mindfulness is important - why do we bother?
1 - Give you more choices and more control over your behavior (i.e., increases self-awareness); 2 - Reduce your emotional suffering and increase your pleasure; 3 - Help you make important decisions (and balance overly emotional or overly logical decisions); 4 - Help focus your attention to be more effective and productive; 5 - Increase compassion for self and others; 6 - Lessen your pain, tension, and stress, and in turn can even improve your health.
The three states of mind.
What are reasonable, emotional, and wise?
Describe a crisis urge and how you would use Pros & Cons technique.
An urge can intensify a crisis when it is intense and acting on the urge will make things worse in the long term; consider short and long term Pros & Cons of acting on urge, Pros & Cons of resisting urge
The word we should use when making a dialectical statement.
What is the word "and"?
Observe, Describe, Participate
Ruled by your feelings and urges.
What is emotional mind?
Name the 6 Self-Soothe with Six Senses
Vision; Hearing; Smell; Taste; Touch; Movement
The people who must learn and practice new behaviors in all the different situations in their lives (e.g., home, school, work, neighborhood).
The names of Mindfulness "How" Skills
Don't Judge, Stay Focused, Do What Works
What is reasonable mind?
Describe both "Cs" in Wise Mind ACCEPTS
Contributing - doing something nice for someone; Comparison - comparing yourself to those less fortunate or how you are feeling now to a time when you were feeling worse.
The act of delegitimizing or communicating that what a person is thinking, feeling, or doing does not make sense.
What is invalidation?
Labeling what you see without interpretations.
Describe skill
An example of this state of mind is choosing to major in business because it will make you the most money, not because you love it.
What is reasonable mind?
A TIPP technique that reduces stress and anxiety in your body by having you slowly tense and then relax each muscle
Progressive Muscle Relaxation