DBT
The state of mind that integrates both emotional mind and reasonable mind
What is wise mind?
These help us to tolerate, minimize, and deal with stressful situations
What are coping skills?
Part of the brain responsible for anxiety and stress responses
Amygdala
Three coping skills
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Show Ari is currently watching.
What is Vikings?
The three "what" skills of mindfulness
What are observe, describe, and participate?
A skill that helps us create distance between ourselves and our thoughts.
What is cognitive diffusion?
A common phrase for the acute stress response used to protect oneself from danger
What is Fight or Flight
This four step breathing technique involves inhaling for four counts, holding for four counts, exhaling for four counts, and holding again for four counts. It helps to reset the nervous system and reduce stress.
What is box breathing?
Crystal on the scavenger hunt
What is quartz?
The DBT skill that includes treating physical illness, balancing eating, avoiding mood altering substances, balancing sleep and getting exercise
What is the PLEASE skill?
Beliefs about ourselves, other people, and the world we live in that determine how we perceive and interpret the world.
What are core beliefs?
A word for the process of looping in the higher brain functions to help understand and cope with unresolved stress or trauma
What is processing?
Distracting through activities, contributing, comparisons, emotions, pushing away, thoughts, or sensations.
What is ACCEPTS?
Color of Ari's cat
What is Black?
A distress tolerance skill that helps us slow down and proceed mindfully.
What is STOP?
CBT concept that illustrates the interaction between a person's thoughts, feelings, and behavior
What is the CBT Triangle
This animal has such a poorly developed brain that it can't identify the very leaves it eats unless they are still attached to the branch
What is a koala bear
Getting in touch with the present moment using our senses.
What is grounding through the senses (or 5-4-3-2-1)?
Underground city in Turkey
What is Derinkuyu?
A skill that help us use assertive communication to ask for something or set a boundary.
What is DEAR MAN?
Evaluating the accuracy of a thought and coming up with a balanced alternative statement.
What is thought challenging?
This part of the brain is responsible for functions such as breathing, heartbeat, and orienting to object in space.
What is the brainstem
This CBT skills asks us to find evidence for or against a belief or automatic thought
What is thought challenging
Ari's favorite fidget toy
What is Rubik's cube?