DBT Basics
This therapy combines acceptance and change strategies to help individuals manage intense emotions.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy?
This DBT skill helps individuals cope with difficult situations without trying to escape them.
What is distress tolerance?
This DBT technique is used for assertive communication in interpersonal effectiveness.
What is DEAR MAN?
This distress tolerance skill involves accepting situations that cannot be changed.
What is radical acceptance?
This mode of DBT treatment is often conducted in a group therapy setting.
What is DBT skills training?
DBT was originally developed to treat this personality disorder.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This technique encourages taking a new approach to manage emotions.
What is opposite action?
This skill is used to strengthen and maintain relationships in DBT.
What is GIVE?
This acronym represents a set of crisis skills in distress tolerance.
What is ACCEPTS?
This type of DBT is used in difficult situations or crises, often over the phone.
What is immediate phone coaching?
This core DBT principle involves staying present and fully engaged in the moment without judgment.
What is mindfulness?
This acronym represents a skill to focus on healthy behaviors in emotional regulation.
What is PLEASE?
This skill is used to enhance self-respect in interpersonal effectiveness.
What is FAST?
This mindfulness practice involves becoming aware of thoughts and feelings without judgment.
What is observing?
This DBT technique challenges assumptions to promote change.
What is Socratic questioning?
DBT emphasizes this concept, the idea that two seemingly contradictory things can both be true.
What are dialectics?
This metaphorical technique is used to manage overwhelming emotions and urges.
What is riding a wave or urge surfing?
This type of statement is used in assertive communication strategies.
What is an “I statement”?
This distress tolerance technique involves engaging in activities to divert attention from distressing situations.
What are distracting activities?
This DBT strategy identifies behavior patterns by breaking down events leading to emotional reactions.
What is chain analysis?
This DBT component focuses on improving relationships and communication skills.
What is interpersonal effectiveness?
This skill helps people take a breath and proceed more mindfully in emotional situations.
What is STOP?
This DBT principle emphasizes finding balance and avoiding extremes in thinking and behavior.
What is walking the middle path?
This acronym represents a set of skills for improving the moment in distress tolerance.
What is IMPROVE?
This component of DBT treatment supports therapists in monitoring the fidelity of their treatment and enhancing their skills.
What are DBT consultation teams for therapists?