General DBT
DBT stands for...
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
The state of mind is ruled by urges, feelings, and impulses.
Emotion Mind
One reason to bother tolerating painful feelings and urges.
1. Pain is part of life and can’t always be avoided.
2. If you can’t deal with your pain, you may act impulsively.
3. When you act impulsively, you may end up hurting yourself, hurting someone else, or not getting what you want.
List 5 emotions.
(Anything)
The Definition of Dialectical is two ______ ideas are true at the same time.
Opposite or Different
The state of mind that is ruled by thinking facts and logic.
Reasonable mind
The skill of accepting things you cannot change.
Radical acceptance
Emotions give us ______ but are not ______.
Information/ Facts
DBT focuses on _______ to decrease and ________to increase.
Problems/ Issues and Behaviors/ Skills
Mindfulness is being both ______ and _________.
openminded and focused
What does acceptance not mean?
Approval
Emotion motivates us and prepares us for actions with these three F's.
Fight, Flight, Freeze
The Biosocial Theory speaks about individuals _______ to emotions.
Vulnerability
The state of mind where both logic and feelings meet together.
Wisemind
Willingness is....
allowing the world to be what it is and participating in it fully.
doing just what is needed—no more, no less. It is being effective.
listening carefully to your Wise Mind and deciding what to do.
When willfulness doesn’t budge, ask: “What is the threat?”
Taking charge of your emotions is important because...
Adolescents often have intense emotions that are difficult to manage,such as anger, shame, depression, or anxiety.
Difficulties controlling these emotions often lead to problematic behaviors that affect you and those around you.
Problematic behaviors are often ineffective solutions to intensely painful emotions.
One DBT assumption is....
1. People are doing the best they can.
2. People want to improve.
3. People need to do better, try harder, and be more motivated to change.
4. People may not have caused all of their own problems and they have to solve
them anyway.
5. The lives of emotionally distressed teenagers and their families are painful as
they are currently being lived.
6. Teens and families must learn and practice new behaviors in all the different
situations in their lives (e.g., home, school, work, neighborhood).
7. There is no absolute truth.
8. Teens and their families cannot fail in DBT.
being mindful can help with...
1. Give you more choices and more control over your behavior. It helps you
slow down and notice emotions, thoughts, and urges (i.e., increases
self‑awareness), and helps you choose a behavior more thoughtfully,
rather than act impulsively and make situations worse.
2. Reduce your emotional suffering and increase your pleasure and sense
of well‑being.
3. Help you make important decisions (and balance overly emotional or overly
logical decisions).
4. Help focus your attention (i.e., be in control of your mind rather than letting
your mind be in control of you) and therefore make you 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.
Willfulness is...
Willfulness is refusing to tolerate a situation or giving up.
Willfulness is trying to change a situation that cannot be changed or refusing to
change something that must be changed.
Willfulness is “the terrible twos”—“no . . . no . . . no . . . ”
Willfulness is the opposite of “DOING WHAT WORKS”
One goal of emotion regulation is?
I. Understand the emotions that you experience.
II. Reduce emotional vulnerability and stop unwanted emotions from starting in the first place.
III. Decrease the frequency of unwanted emotions.
IV. Decrease emotional suffering; stop or reduce unwanted emotions once they start.