DBT
This coping skill involves choosing to do exactly the opposite of what your emotions tell you to do.
Opposite action
This coping skill focuses on identifying negative thoughts or evaluations and modifying them.
Cognitive restructuring
This coping skill is a sentence reframe that allows us to distance from and let go of unhelpful thoughts, beliefs, memories, and other cognitions.
"I'm having the thought that..."
English is the most spoken language in the world.
False, its Mandarin Chinese
How many branches does the US government have?
Three
This coping skill can help you take control of your emotions by focusing on the facts of the situation rather than assumptions or catastrophizing.
Check the facts
This coping skill encourages writing one's thoughts and feelings to reduce a buildup of anxiety and stress.
Journaling
This coping skill encourages someone to take a thought less seriously by changing the voice saying it.
Goofy voice
In a deck of cards, the king has a mustache.
False
Which animal is the mascot for Hufflepuff house in the Harry Potter books?
Badger
This coping skill teaches us to: Describe the current situation, Express your feelings, Assert yourself, Reinforce, stay Mindful, Appear confident, and Negotiate
DEAR MAN
This coping skill focuses on learning the proper breathing technique to reduce feelings of anxiety and stress.
Diaphragmatic breathing
This diffusion tactic uses nature to teach us that our thoughts come and go (if we let them), that we don’t have to react to them, or believe them, or judge them, or get caught up with them.
Putting thoughts on clouds
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
True
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
Like an ocean wave, urges gradually build intensity, they peak, and then they fade away. This skill involves accepting an urge and its discomfort, rather than attempting to suppress it.
Urge surfing
This coping skills encourages alternating between tensing and relaxing different muscle groups throughout the body to reduce anxiety and stress.
This diffusion tactic encourages us to image our thoughts like a computer screen.
X out the tabs
Texas is the biggest American state in square miles.
False, Alaska is the biggest with a total area of 665,384 square miles. Texas has a total area of 268,596 square miles.
Where was the Great Library in ancient Egypt?
Alexandria
This coping skill attempts to keep pain from turning into suffering by acknowledging a situation as it is.
Radical acceptance
This coping skill focuses on letting a scenario play out, which can help one to recognize that even if everything he or she fears comes to pass, the outcome will still be manageable.
Play the script until the end
This diffusion tactic involves imagining floating high above the earth. From this distance, problems and worries appear less threatening.
Zooming out
Australia is wider than the moon.
True - the moon sits at 3400km in diameter, while Australia's diameter from east to west is almost 4000km.
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie