DBT Foundational
Triune Brain
Acronyms
Distress Tolerance Skills
Four Modules
100

These are the two foundational truths of DBT

What is acceptance and change?

100

This model, also a part of our body, is used to describe the Triune brain. 

What is the hand model?

100

DBT stands for this

What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy?

100

Putting an ice pack on my eyes or taking a cold shower and bending forward to how my breath is part of this still skill, that is also an acronym. 

What is the TIPP skill.

100

These are the 4 DBT modules

What is mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance, and emotional regulation

200

This term describes the brains ability to create new paths

What is neuroplasticity?
200

These are the three parts of the triune brain.

What is the neocortex, limbic or mammalian, and reptilian or survival brain?

200

STOP stands for this

What is stop, take a step back, observe, and proceed skillfully. 

200

I made a bag for this skill

What is self-soothe with 5 senses?

200

This Module is an "acceptance" module when you must accept emotions because your SUDS are too high to solve the problem.

What is the Distress Tolerance Module?

300

This term describes our ability to control or maintain the RATE (how often we feel a certain emotion) and  the SPEED (how fast the emotion takes over).

What is regulate?

300

The palm of the hand is this part of our brain in the hand model

What is the survival brain?

300

REST stands for this

What is relax, evaluate, set an intention, and take action?

300

This skill is for when reality is out of my control and I find myself ruminating about it or feeling intense resistance towards it.

What is radical acceptance? 

300

This module is a "change" module when you want to  solve the problem. 

What is the Emotion Regulation module?

400

This hybrid word describes the 3 strongest influences into our mental health.

What is BioPsychoSocial?

400

The thumb is this part of the brain, and when it gets overly activated it pushes up or flips off the neocortex

What is the limbic, emotional or mammalian brain?

400

This is what TIPP stands for

What is temperature, intense exercise, Paired muscle relaxation, and paced breathing?

400

This skill is when I am ready to take action on either the T of the REST acronym or P of the STOP acronym. I am still not solving the problem. 

What is Distracts with ACCEPTS?

400

This is a "change" module for helping you to develop skills to communicate with others and solve problems

What is interpersonal effectiveness module?

500

The "psycho" of biopsychosocial, describes this influence on our adult mental health.

What is our childhood interactions with caretakers?

500

This is the fingers in the hand model, the part of the brain that everything else is covered by when we have access to our full mind. 

What is the neocortex?

500

This stands for FTB

Feelings, Threat Balance

500

This is 4 lists I can make when I am contemplating whether or not to act on an impulse urge

What is pros and cons of acting on impulse urge list?

500

This is an "acceptance" module used when SUDS are low and you want to feel better about your emotions or get to know them better. It can be practiced daily to build up tolerance and to prime the brain for neuroplasticity 

What is the mindfulness module?

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