What Is a Crisis?
A crisis is a moment when your emotions are very ___ and your thinking is harder.
What is “high”?
Crisis survival skills help you get through a crisis ___ and safely.
What is “without making things worse”?
ACCEPTS is a group of what kind of skills?
What are distraction skills?
Give one example of an Activity from ACCEPTS.
Walking, drawing, music, cleaning, games, etc.
You feel overwhelmed in class. Which ACCEPTS skill could you use?
Any (Activities, Thoughts, Emotions, Sensations, etc.)
True or False: A crisis is the time to try to solve the problem.
What is false?
Crisis survival skills help you do this with your body.
What is “calm it down”?
The “A” in ACCEPTS stands for…
What is Activities?
Name one example of Contributing.
Helping a peer, doing a chore, writing a kind note, etc.
You want to yell at someone. Which ACCEPTS skill helps first?
Pushing Away (take a temporary break).
Crisis moments often make people want to react quickly. DBT calls this acting…
What is impulsively?
Crisis skills help distract your mind until emotions become more…
What is manageable?
Which ACCEPTS skill means doing something helpful for someone else?
What is Contributing?
What kind of comparison helps in ACCEPTS?
“I’ve gotten through worse,” or “This will pass.”
Your heart is racing. Which ACCEPTS skill might help?
Sensations (cold water, ice, stretching).
What is the goal during a crisis?
What is “to survive the moment without making it worse”?
True or False: Crisis survival skills can stop the crisis from getting worse.
What is true?
Which ACCEPTS skill means creating a different emotion on purpose?
What is Emotions?
What’s one way to create a new emotion?
Watch something funny, listen to music, look at positive images.
You keep thinking about something upsetting. Which ACCEPTS skill helps you shift your focus?
Thoughts.
DBT teaches that when emotions go up, our ability to problem-solve does what?
What is “goes down”?
Crisis survival skills are meant to help you until you can return to what state of mind?
What is Wise Mind?
What is the purpose of ACCEPTS in a crisis?
What is “to get through the moment without making things worse”?
Name one Thought-based distraction.
Counting, listing animals A–Z, puzzles, math patterns.
You’re spiraling and need to stop the escalation. What is the goal of using ACCEPTS right now?
To survive the moment without making things worse.