Mindfulness
Emotion Regulation
Distress Tolerance
Interpersonal Effectiveness
DBT Important Facts
100

2 opposites that can be true at the same time

What is dialectics?

100

A skill that changes the emotion by acting opposite to its action urge

What is Opposite Action?

100

The purpose of crisis survival skills

What is tolerating painful events, urges, and emotions when you cannot make things better right away?

100

Definition of interpersonal

What is relating to relationships or communication between 2 or more people?
100

What DBT stands for

What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy?

200

The 3 states of mind

What is reasonable mind, wise mind, and emotion mind?

200

Main question to ask yourself when using Check the Facts

What is do my emotions fit the facts of the situation?

200

TIPP stands for

What is Tip the temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, and Progressive muscle relaxation?

200

A skill that is for relationship effectiveness and a skill that is for self-respect effectiveness

What is GIVE (relationship) and FAST (self-respect)?

200

The person who created DBT, she had lived experience of mental illness and designed a therapy that would help people like her younger self

Who is Marsha Linehan?

300

The “what” skills

What is observe, describe, and participate?

300

What ABC stands for and what the PLEASE skill is

What is accumulate positive emotions, build mastery, and cope ahead with emotional situations?

What is taking care of your mind and body or treat physical illness, balance eating, avoid mood altering substances, balance sleep, and get exercise?

300

The difference between distracting and avoiding?

What is taking a time-limited break where you come back to the problem verses never returning to the issue?

300

DEARMAN stands for

What is 

DESCRIBE, EXPRESS, ASSERT, REINFORCE

(stay) MINDFUL, APPEAR CONFIDENT, NEGOTIATE

300

The DBT module that is considered to be the most important and necessary to complete the other modules

What is mindfulness?

400

The “how” skills

What is nonjudgmental, one-mindfully, and effectively?

400
Sleep hygiene is

What are healthy habits/behaviors that can be adjusted to help you have a good night’s sleep?

400

Skill to stop fighting reality, throwing tantrums because reality is not the way you want it, and letting go of bitterness

What is Radical Acceptance?

400

Validation means (in DBT)

Finding the truth in another person’s perspective or situation; verifying the facts of the situation

Acknowledging that a person’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors have causes and are therefore understandable 

Not necessarily agreeing with the other person 

Not validating what is actually invalid

400

Pain + Nonacceptance =


What is suffering? 

500

The 3 goals of mindfulness practice

What is reduce suffering + increase happiness, increase control of your mind, and experience reality as it is?

500

The 4 goals of emotion regulation

What is understand and name your own emotions, decrease the frequency of unwanted emotions, decrease emotional vulnerability, and decrease emotional suffering?

500

The 3 goals of distress tolerance

What is survive crisis situations, accept reality, and become free?

500

The 3 goals of interpersonal effectiveness

What is be skillful in getting what you want and need from others, build relationships and end destructive ones, and walk the middle path?

500

The theory that DBT is based off

What is Biosocial Theory?

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