MINDFULNESS
This mind is driven by facts and logic.
What is Intelligent Mind
(aka: Reasonable/Rational/Logical Mind?)
Leaves on a Stream, The Ocean and The Tourist, and The Guest House are examples of this.
What is Mindfulness (or Guided Meditation).
A DBT skill that is usually associated with the shape of a traffic sign.
What is STOPP.
This skill involves completely accepting reality as it is, without fighting it.
What is Radical Acceptance?
This is the name of the therapist who created Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Marsha Linehan.
In this mind, your feelings are "in the driver's seat" and can lead to impulsive actions.
What is Emotional Mind?
This skill involves visualizing a "secret room" or a "safe place" to lower distress.
Answer: What is Build a Room?
OR
What is Imagery?
This DBT tool looks at the details of what happens in a specific instance and reminds us that in the end we have two choices: 1. A short term 'feel good' with a long term 'consequence', or 2. A short term 'discomfort' with a long term 'feel good'.
What is Behavioral Chain Analysis?
OR
What is a Behavioral Chain?
True or False: Radical Acceptance means you approve of or like what is happening.
False.
DBT was originally developed to treat this specific personality disorder.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder or BPD?
This is the "middle ground" where you use a balance of both the emotional and the intellectual parts of your brain.
What is Wise Mind?
Holding your breath and putting your face in cold water will activate this.
What is the Mammalian Dive Reflex?
When an emotion is "too hot to touch," DBT suggests using this category of skills that includes distraction.
What is Distress Tolerance?
This physical posture involves slightly upturned lips to send "safety" signals to the brain.
What is Half-Smile?
In DBT, the "D" stands for this word, which means the balance of two opposing forces, or that two things can both be true at the same time.
What is Dialectical
When the emotional side of your brain knocks the intellectual side of your brain "off-line" for 6 seconds at a time.
What is an Amygdala Hijack?
A pre-made and custom box or other container that holds things that help you get back to a balanced state of mind.
What is a Self-Soothe Kit.
According to DBT, when life gives you a problem, you have these five specific options, Solve it, Change your feeling, Accept it, Stay miserable, or _______.
What is make it worse?
Sitting with open palms facing up is a physical practice of this skill.
What are Willing Hands and Open Heart?
Or What are Willing Hands?
These are the four modules of DBT: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, _______ and Interpersonal Effectiveness.
What is Emotion Regulation?
The concept of Mindfulness comes from this 2,500-year-old major set of teachings, philosophy, doctrines and disciplines, originating in India.
What is Buddhism?
The DBT skill "Check The Facts" includes this saying, _____ are not ____.
What are Feelings are not facts?
Unlike other DBT skills that help you change your life or regulate your emotions, the sole purpose of Crisis Survival skills is to get you through the moment without doing this.
What is making the situation worse?
According to DBT, and the story of The Two Arrows, pain is inevitable, but this is optional.
What is Suffering?
This 10-letter word means acknowledging that a person’s feelings or thoughts are real, even if you don’t agree with them.
What is Validation?