Therapy
Acronyms
Acronyms
This type of therapy focuses on thoughts, or cognitions, to help clients adjust their perspective.
What is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)?
This exercise involves focusing on one part of the body at a time and observing how it feels without changing it.
What is a body scan?
Thinking everyone who is mad about something is mad at you specifically.
This can involve oils, incense, perfume, or other pleasant, grounding smells.
What is aromatherapy?
This ancient practice uses breathwork and movement to still the mind - gets you a pretty good stretch, too.
What is yoga?
This type of therapy helps people radically accept things in life.
What is ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)?
In this exercise, you breathe through one nostril at a time.
What is alternate nostril breathing?
Example: I didn't get 100% on this test, I must be a failure.
What is all-or-nothing thinking?/ What is polarized thinking?
This item provides pressure on the body rather than being used for sleeping.
What is a weighted blanket?
This activity has two benefits: getting moving and being in nature.
What is hiking?
This type of therapy has four pillars: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
What is DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy)?
This coping skill involves crossing your arms over your chest and tapping alternating shoulders.
What is a butterfly hug?
Being certain the worst-case scenario will happen.
What is catastrophizing?
Eating this type of flavor, you may shock your system into being distracted from your original discomfort.
What is sour?
Unlike the stationary version, this involves paying attention to sensations in your feet and how they change as you move.
What is a walking meditation?
This type of therapy may involve a light bar, headphones, tapping, or watching the therapist's hand move back and forth.
What is EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)?
This technique includes tapping pressure points at different locations in the body: the hand, the eyebrows, the temples, the collarbones, and the sides, to name a few.
What is the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)?
Definitionally: I feel something, therefore it must be true.
What is emotional reasoning?
This comfort is universal, but sounds different for everyone.
What is listening to music?
Turn the music up! Twenty minutes of this daily can improve cardiovascular strength and stamina in addition to boosting your mood.
What is dancing?
In Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, the acronym "DEARMAN" can help clients cope with confrontation, the 'N' of which stands for this.
What is Negotiate?
Do this until your upper body is tired - your muscles will be exhausted and some of your anger might be, too.
What is push the wall?
Believing you are owed a reward for being a good person or doing the right things.
What is the Heaven's Reward fallacy?
This sensory comfort stimulates one's sense of proprioception through small, repetitive movements.
What is rocking?
What is stretching?