Mindfulness
Distress Tolerance
Emotional Regulation
Interpersonal Effectiveness
DBT Misc.
100

Skill is about paying attention to what is happening inside your body and/or in your environment.  Just Notice.

What is:  Observe

100

This crisis skill is designed to deactivate the stress response and activate the parasympathetic system (the rest-and-digest response)

What is: TIPP

100

Checking out whether your emotional reactions fit the facts of the situation

What is: CHECK THE FACTS

100

Finding the kernel of truth in another person's perspective or situation; acknowledging that person's emotions, thoughts, and behaviors have causes and are therefore understandable. 

What is: VALIDATION

100

Being aware of the present moment and focusing our attention on the here and now

What is MINDFULNESS

200

Skill is using language to narrate what you Observe. Use your words. Do your best to be specific and factual, avoiding judgments, assumptions, or opinions.

What is: Describe

200

What the acronym T.I.P.P. stands for

What is: T=Temperature, I=Intense Excercise, P=Paced Breathing, P=Pared Muscle Relaxation

200

A skill that helps to reduce emotional vulnerability; taking care of your mind by taking care of your body

What is: PLEASE

200

Skill that teaches us to get what we want

What is: DEARMAN

200

DBT stands for.....

What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

300

Your inner wisdom, or intuition, is useful for making life decisions and understanding your authentic self in DBT.  Uses Emotion Mind and Reasonable Mind. 

What is Wise Mind

300

In the heat of an emotional crisis, it can be tough to remember why you want to stop engaging in certain impulsive behaviors (i.e. crisis urges).

What is: Pros and Cons

300

Doing things that make you feel competent and effective to combat helplessness and hopelessness 

What is: Building Mastery

300

What the acronym DEARMAN stands for

What is: D=Describe, E=Express, A=Assert, R=Reinforce, M=Mindful, A=Assertive, N=Negotiate

300

When your emotions are in control-when they influence and control your thinking and your behavior.

What is EMOTION MIND

400

In this Buddhist practice of "metta" meditation, you send well wishes to another person, to yourself, or to the whole world. 

What is:  Loving Kindness

400

The first Crisis Survivial skill to use whenever you're trying to decrease impulsive behaviors.

What is: STOP

400

In DBT, we say "emotions love themselves." They often make us do things that keep them around. To reduce an emotion you don't want to feel, disrupt its self-loving cycle by practicing this skill

What is:  Opposite Action

400

Skill that teaches us how to maintain relationships

What is GIVE

400

Balancing opposites while entering the paradox of "yes" and "No" "true" and "not true," at the very same time

What is DIALECTICS

500

Skill asks you to let go of judgments-interpretations or assumptions about reality that are not directly observable by the senses. 

What is:  Nonjudgmentally

500

What the acronym S.T.O.P stands for:

What is: S= Stop take a break, T=Take a step back, O=Observe, P=Proceed Mindfully

500

Daily Double:  What the acronym "ABC" in ABC Please stands for

What is: A=Accumulating Positive in the Short Term, B=Building Mastery, C=Cope Ahead

500

Skill that teaches us how to respect ourselves

What is FAST

500

Examples of Reasonable Mind

What is Logical, Focused, approached intellectually