DBT Skills
Dialectical therapy that focuses on behavior
What is DBT?
A hormone secreted by the adrenal glands, especially in conditions of stress, increasing rates of blood circulation, breathing, and carbohydrate metabolism and preparing muscles for exertion
What is adrenaline?
Using movement to reduce stress
What is exercising?
Excessive apprehensiveness about real or perceived threats, typically leading to avoidance behaviors and often to physical symptoms such as increased heart rate and muscle tension
What is anxiety?
What is group therapy?
What is the GIVE skill?
The instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away
What is fight or flight response?
Removing yourself from a situation to regulate emotions
What is taking a break?
A mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest.
What is depression?
Rules or limits that someone establishes to protect their security and wellbeing around others; we identify and express how other people can behave around us so that we feel safe
What are boundaries?
A mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique
What is mindfulness?
Nature's built-in alarm system. It's your body's main stress hormone. It works with certain parts of your brain to control your mood, motivation, and fear.
What is cortisol?
Any behaviour an individual uses to regulate their emotional state by themselves
What is self-soothing?
A disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event.
What is PTSD?
A detailed plan with information about a patient's disorder, the goal of treatment, the treatment options for the disorder and the expected length of treatment.
What is a treatment plan?
When you use temperature, intense exercise, and paced breathing to regulate intense emotions
What is the TIPP skill?
The part of the brain that handles decision-making — doesn’t fully mature until 25.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The practice of taking an active role in protecting one's own well-being and happiness, in particular during periods of stress
What is self-care?
The persistent and intense fear of deep bodies of water, such as the ocean, seas, or lakes.
What is thalassalaphobia?
Denial, Bargaining, Anger, Depression, Acceptance
What are the stages of grief?
The acronym definitions for DEARMAN
What is Describe, Express, Assert, Reinforce, Mindful, Appear Confident, Negotiate?
The part of the brain that's most closely associated with fear, emotions, and motivation.
What is the amygala?
The technique works by slowing down the breath and distracting the mind by drawing the focus to a 4-4-4-4 pattern of inhale, hold, exhale, hold
What is 4 square breathing?
Extreme or irrational fear of entering open or crowded places, of leaving one's own home, or of being in places from which escape is difficult.
What is agoraphobia?
A thought that causes a person to perceive reality inaccurately due to being exaggerated or irrational.
What is a cognitive distortion?