cognitive distortion
Irrational thoughts that influence how you see the world, how you feel, and how you act.
What are cognitive distortions?
The effective, evidence-backed process of changing these faulty ways of thinking.
What is cognitive restructuring
The behavior of doing the opposite to how you’re feeling.
What is opposite action?
The present moment component that cultivates positive states like awareness, acceptance, and non-judgement.
What is mindfulness?
The mindfulness-based therapy that helps build psychological flexibility through the being present, acceptance, cognitive diffusion, values, committed action, and self as context.
What is ACT Therapy?
The belief that you are responsible for events outside of your control.
What is personalization?
The tracking of recurrent thoughts that are coming to mind and the situations in which they come up.
What is a thought record or journaling?
The techniques involving the ability to manage emotions and impulses to achieve goals and maintain mental well-being
What is emotion regulation?
The DBT mindfulness skill of observe, describe, and participate.
What is the “what” skill?
The process of distancing yourself from and changing the way you react to distressing thoughts and feelings, which will mitigate their harmful effects.
What is cognitive defusion?
Thinking in absolutes such as “always”, “never”, or “every”.
What is all or nothing thinking or black and white thinking?
The cognitive restructuring technique
What is Socratic Questioning?
The DBT coping skill that helps you determine if your emotional intensity matches the reality of a situation.
What is “check the facts”?
The DBT mindfulness skill of one mindfully, non-judgmentally, and effectively.
What is the “How” skill?
The acknowledgment and embracing of the full range of your thoughts and emotions rather than trying to avoid, deny, or alter them.
What is acceptance in ACT Therapy?
The recognition of only the negative aspects of a situation while ignoring the positive.
What is disqualifying the positive?
The determination of what is likely to happen, reduce irrational or unreasonable anxiety, and see that even the worst-case scenario is manageable.
What is the decatastrophizing or the “what if” technique?
The DBT acronym of five healthy habits to improve mental health and physical health.
What is the PLEASE DBT skill?
The dried grape, sweet, wrinkly used as a snack, an ingredient, or in a group mindfulness exercise.
What is the raisin exercise?
The choosing of personal ______ in different domains and striving to live according to those principles.
What are “values” in ACT Therapy?
The seeing of only the worst possible outcomes of a situation.
What is catastrophizing?
The restructuring technique that involves visualization.
What is guided imagery?
The learning to recognize the positive aspects of a situation that can help improve your mood.
What is paying attention to positive events or accumulating the positives?
The distress tolerance skill that means fully acknowledging and embracing painful reality (past or present) without fighting it, which stops pain from becoming unnecessary suffering, without condoning the situation or giving up; it's about accepting what is, not liking it, to allow for effective action and moving forward, not passive resignation.
What is radical acceptance?
The taking of concrete steps to incorporate changes that will align with your values and lead to positive change.
What is “committed action” in ACT Therapy?