Marsha
DBT Skills
Dialectics
Minds
Background
100

This is the first name of DBT's founder.

What is Marsha?

100

This is the number of DBT skills categories.

What is 4?

100

This is what the D stands for in DBT.

What is dialectical?

100

This is the skills category in which Wise Mind is found.

What is mindfulness?

100

True or false: Marsha Linehan is a Zen Master.

What is true?
200

This is the last name of DBT's founder.

What is Linehan?

200

This DBT skill involves using your five senses to help ground yourself.

What is Self-Soothing?

200

This is the image that Sydney draws on the board to demonstrate dialectics.

What is a scale/seesaw?

200

Name the two sides of Wise Mind.

What are Logical/Rational Mind and Emotion Mind?

200

This is the state in which the DBT founder was a professor.

What is Washington?

300

True or false: Marsha is still alive.

What is true? Her birthday is May 5, 1943.

300

This is what the GIVE acronym stands for.

Gentle, Interested, Validation, Easy-Mannered.

300

These are the two main dialectics found in DBT.

What are acceptance and change?

300

Name the two sides of Clear Mind.

What are Addict Mind and Clean Mind?

300

This is the year the first DBT manual was published.

What is 1993?

400

This is the age at which Marsha first went to the hospital.

What is 17?

400

This DBT interpersonal effectiveness skill helps you communicate more effectively.

What is the GIVE skill?

400

This is the definition of dialectics.

What is the balance of opposites?

400

This is the addiction version of Wise Mind.

What is Clear Mind?

400

This is the diagnosis that DBT was originally created for.

What is borderline personality disorder?

500

Marsha was a professor at this university.

What is the University of Washington?

500

Name the four categories of DBT skills.

Interpersonal effectiveness, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance.

500

This color describes the balance of black and white thinking.

What is plaid?

500

This Mind is used as a foundation in all DBT skills.

What is Wise Mind?

500

This is the name of the theory that the founder of DBT studied.

What is biosocial theory?

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