DBT Skills
True or False: DBT stands for Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
True
This term describes the ability to recognize and name what you're feeling in the moment.
What is emotional awareness?
This Pixar sequel gave "Anxiety" her own orange, fidgety character design.
What is Inside Out 2?
This DBT acronym helps you ask for what you need while maintaining relationships and self respect.
What is DEAR MAN?
This planet is known for its prominent ring system, visible even from a small telescope.
What is Saturn?
This DBT module focused on noticing and describing the present moment without judgement.
What is mindfulness?
True or False: All emotions, even the uncomfortable ones like anger or sadness, serve a purpose.
True.
True or False: The show "Ted Lasso" includes a storyline about the main character's panic attack and time in therapy.
True.
True or False: Setting a boundary means controlling what someone else does.
What is False (a boundary is about what you will do in response, not controlling others).
True or False: Octopuses have three hearts.
What is True?
Fill in the blank: The skill of accepting a situation without approving of it is called___.
What is Radical Acceptance?
Fill in the blank: Treating yourself with the same kindness you'd offer a friend is called ____
What is self compassion?
This term, popularized on social media, refers to setting limits on what you will and won't tolerate from others.
What is boundaries?
This term describes communication that expresses your own needs honestly without violating someone else's rights.
What are assertiveness?
Fill in the blank: a group of crows is called a ___.
What is a murder?
True or False: DEAR MAN is a skill used in the Emotional Regulation module.
False (it's part of Interpersonal Effectiveness)
This skill involves pausing between an urge and an action, creating space to choose a response instead of reacting?
What is distress tolerance or the pause?
Fill in the Blank: This term describes the wave of anxious regret after a night of drinking or oversharing
What is "hangxiety"?
True or False: Repairing a relationship after conflict always requires one person to apologize.
What is False (repair can happen through mutual understanding, not just apology).
True or False: Honey never spoils if stored properly.
What is True?
This module teaches skills for surviving a crisis without making it worse, including the acronym TIPP.
What is Distress Tolerance
True or False: If you ignore an emotion long enough, it disappears permanently.
What is False - it tends to resurface, often stronger or in another form.
True or False: The phrase "gaslighting" ordinally comes from a psychology textbook.
False (it comes from the 1938 play/1944 film Gaslight)
Fill in the blank: Listening to understand, rather than to respond, is called ____.
What is active listening?
This 1990s toy was a small digital pet that needed to be "fed" and "cared for" via a keychain device.
What is the Tamagotchi?