Coping Skills 1
In IMPROVE, this skill means picturing a calming or positive image to help shift your emotional state
Imagery
This skill involves putting your face in cold water to lower emotional intensity.
TIPP (Temperature)
This attachment style is marked by comfort with closeness and trusting others
Secure
This role in the Drama Triangle feels powerless, overwhelmed, and seeks someone to “fix” the situation
Victim
What does ACT stand for?
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
This ACT skill helps you create space between yourself and your thoughts, instead of getting entangled in them
Cognitive Defusion
This ACT concept refers to the part of you that notices your thoughts, feelings, and experiences but is not defined by them
Self-as-context
Someone with this attachment style might cling to others but fear abandonment and seek constant reassurance.
Anxious
In the Empowerment Triangle, the Victim transforms into this role, someone who takes responsibility and seeks growth.
Creator
This stage is when someone isn’t yet thinking about making a change and may not see their behavior as a problem.
Pre-contemplation
In the STOP skill, the “T” stands for this action to take before doing anything else.
Take a step back
In DBT, these are the 'what' skills: Observe, Describe, and _____
Participate
People with this attachment style may avoid intimacy, value independence, and struggle with vulnerability.
Avoidant
The Rescuer becomes this role in the Empowerment Triangle—someone who supports others without enabling.
Coach
This 'feel-good' brain chemical is released when you express gratitude and helps reinforce rewarding social behavior
Dopamine
This 'how' skill means noticing your thoughts and feelings without labeling them as good or bad.
Non-judgementally
This 'how' skill in DBT means doing one thing at a time, without multitasking or distractions.
One-Mindfully
This critical, blaming role in the drama triangle tends to point fingers or use control to dominate the situation.
The Persecutor becomes this role in the Empowerment Triangle—someone who sets boundaries and uses assertiveness, not blame.
Challenger
This process involves learning to care for your inner child by meeting emotional needs with compassion and safety.
Reparenting
Name all 7 IMPROVE skills
Imagery
Meaning
Prayer
Relaxation
One thing in the moment
Vacation
Encouragement
Name all 7 ACCEPTS skills
Activities
Contributing
Comparisons
Emotions
Push Away
Thoughts
Sensations
Name all 6 family roles in addiction
1. Addict
2. Scapegoat
3. Hero
4. Enabler
5. Lost child
6. Mascot
When a person overreacts emotionally in the present (having a "tantrum"), it may be a sign that this part of them has been triggered.
Inner child
What are the four sources of self-efficacy?
1. Mastery Experiences
2. Vicarious Experiences
3. Verbal Persuasion
4. Emotional and Physiological states