ACCEPTS
Senses
IMPROVE
Don't Forget About Wise Mind
Potpourri
100
This is a skill that involves helping others around you or in your community, such as tutoring a peer or volunteering at a church.
What is Contribute?
100
Looking at a favorite poster or paiting your room a pleasant color is an example of using this sense.
What is sight?
100
Finding our "happy place" is an example of this IMPROVE skill.
What is Imagery?
100
There are the two components of Wise Mind.
What are Emotional Mind and Reasonable Mind?
100
This skill involves taking the situation for what it is.
What is Radical Acceptance?
200
Watching those miserable people on the Jerry Springer Show is an example of using this ACCEPTS skill.
What is Comparisons?
200
Drinking hot cocoa on a dreary winter morning might focus your attention on these three senses the most.
What are smell, taste, and touch?
200
Part of the Serenity Prayer is to be granted the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and this.
What is the wisdom to know the difference?
200
When you're using wise mind, DBT says that your being this.
What is mindful?
200
When you're fighting against a situation to turn it into something else (usually when it can't be changed) is an example of this type of approach.
What is Mr./Mrs. Fix-It?
300
Be careful when you use this ACCEPTS skill, because too much of it can turn into AVOIDANCE.
What is Pushing Away.
300
These are the four senses that we use in the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 mindfulness exercise.
What are sight, touch, sound, and smell?
300
Come fly away with me....to the kitchen for donuts.
What is Vacation?
300
These are at least two of the "what" skills.
What are observe, describe, participate?
300
These are at least three of the distress tolerance skills that Shrek used when Donkey was outside his hut in the clip.
What are pushing away, sight, sound, taste, touch, relaxation (or many more)?
400
Watching Happy Gilmore when your feeling sad is an example of using this ACCEPTS skill.
What is Emotions?
400
This is the what we do for the "1" of the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 mindfulness exercise.
What is state one positive thing about ourselves?
400
This is kind of like Onemindfulness.
What is One thing in the moment.
400
Saying "I can't concentrate in this room" instead of "These jerks are all trying to drive me crazy", is an example of this skill.
What is Non-Judgementally?
400
This is the mindfulness activity we used during this section that specifically dealt with disappointment.
What is the "switched candy" exercise?
500
Eating spicy candy or jumping into a cold shower might be examples of this ACCEPTS skill.
What is Sensations?
500
When Sensations (of ACCEPTS) are taken too far, this can lead to this harmful behavior.
What is cutting?
500
"What doesn't kill me will only make me stronger" is an example of this IMPROVE skill.
What is Meaning?
500
This is the idiom that empasizes Effectiveness (even if it sounds really weird).
What is "cut off your nose to spite your face"?
500
Instead of using acceptance, when you either Give Up or try to be Mr./Mrs. Fix-It, this usurally happens with your emotions.
What is "flare up" because you're not dealing with the situation as it is?
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