DBT definitions
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DBT Skills
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This mind ONLY focuses on the facts of the situation.

What is: Rational Mind

100

A set of skills used to create a life style that reflects balanced actions, balanced emotions, and balanced thinking.

What is: DBT--Dialectic Behavioral Therapy 

100

These skills teach you what to do when you practice being mindful

What are: WHAT skills
100

Adding words to describe what your are noticing or observing. 

Hint: This is a WHAT skill for mindfulness

What is: Describing 

100

When you can identify that a conversation is taking at run for the worse and you are shifting into emotional mind, find a common ground and then return to the conversation.

What is: Mutual purpose. 

200

This mind allows for decisions to be made bases ONLY on emotions. 

What is: Emotional Mind

200

Noticing without attachment. 


Ex.) Watching the clouds move across the sky

What is: Observer 

200

These skills teach you how to practice mindfulness.

What are: HOW skills

200

Doing what is congruent (aligns) with your goals. 

Hint: This is a HOW skill for practicing mindfulness

What is: Acting-effectively 

200

Taking the other persons thoughts and feelings into condideration

What is: mutual respect

300

When you combined emotional mind and rational mind you get... 

What is: Wise Mind

300

Strategies for coping with conflict, keeping relationships, and negotiating with others.

What are: Interpersonal effective skills

300

ACCEPTS skills help us with managing...

What is: Distressed tolerance

300

What part of ACCEPTS skills has the following definition: "Replace the emotion that reinforces our distress with an emotion that will help us move into wise mind"

What is: Opposite Emotion

300

What part of SHARE skills has the following definition: immediately acknowledge your wrongs to avoid more suffering and the development of resentment.

What is: Admit when you are wrong

400

Two opposing truths

What are: Dialects

400

statements that make a general and fixed judgement about something/someone. 

Ex.) Always, never, everyone

What are: Absolutes

400

PROMISE skills help us manage...

What is: Distress Tolerance 

400

What part of PROMISE skills has the following definition: "ask for advice/help from trusted people who are a part of your recovery."

What is: Seek advice
400

What part of DEAR MAN skills has the following definition: "clearly explain the benefits and present the possible consequences of not meeting the conversation goal"

What is: REINFORCE..... the benefits of getting what you want to happen or the consequences of not getting what you want

500

Moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness, that is cultivated by paying attention. 

What is: Mindfulness 

500

using skills to successfully cope with stressful situation and unwanted emotions instead of doing something to make things works. It is the ability to perceive the environment as it is without demanding it be different. 

What is: Distressed tolerance

500

Lack of skills, worry thoughts, emotional outbursts, and self-centeredness are all roadblocks to...

What is: Interpersonal effective skills

500

What part of ACCEPTS skills has the following definition: "Focusing on a neutral or pleasant thought in order to move into wise mind easier."

What is: Distracting with THOUGHTS

500

What part of SHARE skills has the following definition: Remember ways you have acted in the past and the negative effects your behavior created.

What is: REMEMBER past performances and present behavior. 

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