Mindfulness
The wisdom within each person; seeing the value of both reason and emotion; bringing left brain and right brain together; the middle path
What is Wisemind?
Replacing immediate negative events with more positive ones
What is IMPROVE
Checking out whether your emotional reactions fit the facts of the situation
What is Check the Facts?
Finding the kernel of truth in another person's perspective or situation; acknowledging that person's emotions, thoughts, and behaviors have causes and are therefore understandable.
What is Validation?
Being aware of the present moment and focusing our attention on the here and now
What is Mindfulness?
Noticing your body sensations; paying attention; controlling your attention; practicing wordless watching
What is Observing?
The skill that teaches us ways to distract ourselves from a situation
What is ACCEPTS
A skill that helps to reduce emotional vulnerability; taking care of your mind by taking care of your body
What is PLEASE
What is the skill used to empathize and is part of the IMAGO technique?
What is Active Listening?
DBT stands for.....
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Putting words on the experience; labeling what you observe; unglue your interpretations and opinions
What is Describing?
Being kind to the self with soothing music, smells, pictures, and/or soft touch
What is Self-soothing or using a Crisis Kit?
Doing things that make you feel competent and effective to combat helplessness and hopelessness
What is Building Mastery?
Skill that teaches us to get what we want
What is DEARMAN
DAILY DOUBLE: Skill you use for acknowledging your thoughts and feelings without judgment and without needing other people's opinions
What is Internal Validation?
Fully entering into the present moment; becoming one with whatever you are doing; go with the flow
What is Participating?
DAILY DOUBLE: This is doing just what is needed, wholeheartedly, without dragging your feet.
What is Willingness?
Do things that you enjoy doing; making changes in your life so that positive events will happen more often in the future; building a life worth living
What is Accumulating Positives?
Skill that teaches us how to maintain relationships
What is GIVE
Balancing opposites while entering the paradox of "yes" and "no," "true" and "not true," at the very same time
What is Dialectics?
Viewing reality as it is, refraining from labeling experiences/individuals as good or bad.
What is Non-Judgemental
Letting go of fighting reality and understanding that there are some things that we can not change.
What is Radical Acceptance?
What's the skill: When you are afraid-face your fears, when you are angry-smile
What is Opposite Action?
Skill that teaches us how to respect ourselves
What is FAST
The DBT equation for suffering
What is Pain + Non-Acceptance?