Mindfulness
Distress Tolerance
Emotion Regulation
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Dialectics and More
100

A synthesis of emotion and facts. 

What is Wise Mind?

100

A distress tolerance skill that helps us assess a situation and avoid making it worse. Hint: It has a dance. Bonus points if you do the dance!

What is the STOP skill?

100

The skill to use when we make assumptions or believe our thoughts are completely true.

What is Check the Facts?

100

We must figure out our _______ in order to know which interpersonal effectiveness skill to use. (They include: keeping and maintaining a healthy relationship, getting someone to do what you want or saying no, and maintaining self respect.)

What are priorities?

100

Proposes that some people are born with high sensitivity to emotions, high reactivity to emotions, and a slow return to baseline. 

What is the Biosocial Theory?

200

A "What" skill that involves wordless watching. 

What is observe?

200

The skill that makes physiological changes to your body and the skill to use when you are at 100/100 of emotional dysregulation.

What is the TIPP skill? 

200

The Mindfulness of Current Emotion Skill that helps us sit with our emotion and let it come down. 

What is SUNWave?

200

This is the skill we can use to help improve or maintain a relationship. It is also a skill that is helpful to use every single day.

What is the GIVE skill?

200

Target 2 behaviors

What are therapy interfering behaviors?

300

Some would call this being in the flow or in the zone. Fully experiencing the moment. 

What is participate?

300

The skill we use to remind ourselves why our Long Term Wise Mind goal is to tolerate the distress.

What is Pros and Cons?

300

The acronym we use to assess our options for approaching a problem. 

What is SCREW?
300

Lindsey's favorite DBT skill, and the skill we use to ask for something effectively. 

What is DEARMAN?

300

Marsha Linehan discovered that ______ and ______ are both needed for people to recover. Hint: This is the major dialectic in DBT. 

What is "acceptance" and "change"?

400

We use this "how" skill to keep our anger at bay, especially with Houston drivers and Trump supporters!

What is Nonjudgmental stance?

400

We use Half Smile and Willing Hands when we want to generate this.

What is willingness?

400

When we feel fear and anxiety, our urge is to avoid. We would use this skill to be more effective.

What is Opposite Action?

400

A skill that helps us maintain/increase our self-respect.

What is FAST?

400

The dialectical dilemma when someone has a whack-a-mole of problems OR pushes everything away. 

What is Unrelenting Crisis vs. Inhibited Experiencing?

500

A type of mindfulness/meditation exercise that increases self-love, love of others, and happiness.

What is loving-kindness?

500

The skill we must use when we cannot solve or change a problem.

What is Radical Acceptance?

500

The skills we focus on to reduce our vulnerabilities. 

What are PLEASE skills?

500

When we want to make peace, reduce conflict, and reduce anger, we use this skill. 

What is THINK?

500

In a chain analysis, the things outside the prompting event that make us more susceptible to emotion dysregulation. 

What are vulnerability factors?

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