Mindfulness
Being in control of your mind through full awareness and attentional control.
What is Mindfulness?
Accepting things you cannot change.
What is Radical Acceptance?
The idea that there is always more than one way to see a situation and two things can be true at once.
What are Dialectics?
Mapping or exploring an emotion inducing story to help a person intervene to change their emotional experience and actions.
What is the Model of Emotions?
A skill that guides you to act respectful, listen, show understanding and use an easygoing manner.
What is the GIVE skill?
A state of being “cool” and ruled by thinking, facts and logic.
What is Reasonable Mind?
Refusing to tolerate a situation, giving up, trying to change something that can’t be changed, or refusing to change something that must be changed.
What is Willfulness?
A few examples of this include black-and-white thinking, catastrophizing, “should” statements, mind reading, and overgeneralization.
What are Thinking Mistakes?
Acting in a contrary way to the action urge when an emotion is doing more harm than good.
What is Opposite Action?
A therapeutic technique where individuals act out challenging or realistic scenarios in a safe, controlled environment to practice new behaviors and emotional responses.
What is Roleplay?
A mindfulness skill that consists of observing, describing, and participating.
What are Mindfulness “What” Skills?
A crisis survival skill in the form of an acronym that focuses on distracting oneself.
What is the Distract with Wise Mind ACCEPTS skill?
Communicating to another person that their feelings, thoughts and actions make sense and are understandable to you in a particular situation.
What is Validation?
Rehearsing a plan ahead of time so that you are prepared when there is a potential real or perceived threat.
What is Coping Ahead?
A skill that helps get somebody to do what you want.
What is the DEAR MAN skill?
A balance of logic and emotions.
What is Wise Mind?
A crisis survival skill to use when emotional arousal is very high that works by changing your body chemistry.
What is the TIPP skill?
Increasing the frequency of a behavior by removing something unpleasant.
What is Negative Reinforcement?
A skill that focuses on taking care of physical health, getting a nutritious diet, staying away from drugs/alcohol, getting balanced sleep, and exercising.
What is the PLEASE skill?
A skill that helps you maintain your self-respect when interacting with others.
What is the FAST skill?
A mindfulness skill that consists of not judging, staying focused, and doing what works.
What are Mindfulness “How” Skills?
The skill that allows people to see that coping skillfully with pain and impulsive urges leads to better results than acting impulsively and rejecting reality.
What is the Pros and Cons skill?
Reinforcing small steps that lead toward an ultimate goal.
What is Shaping?
A skill in which you experience your emotion, practice mindfulness of emotional body sensations, do not identify as your emotion, and do not judge your emotion.
What is The Wave Skill?
A skill in which you consider a situation differently in order to make peace, reduce conflict, and reduce anger.
What is the THINK skill?