Crisis Survival Tactics
This skill encourages you to take a breath and not react impulsively to your urges.
What is STOP?
The go-to acronym for asking for what you want while staying effective.
What is DEAR MAN?
The 'middle ground' state of mind that balances logic and emotion.
What is Wise Mind?
The core tension of the model: the synthesis between acceptance and change.
What is Dialectics?
This acronym reminds you to change your body’s physiology using temperature or intense exercise.
What is TIPP?
The skill used when the primary goal is to keep the other person liking you or to maintain the peace.
What is GIVE?
The intervention used when your emotion is not justified by the facts—like approaching what you fear.
What is Opposite Action?
The specific protocol that dictates which behavior is addressed first in an individual session.
What is the Target Priority Hierarchy?
This skill uses activities, contributions, and sensations to push away distressing thoughts.
What is ACCEPTS?
This skill is used when your self-respect is the top priority in an interaction.
What is FAST?
The daily maintenance skill for reducing emotional vulnerability by tending to physical health.
What is the PLEASE skill?
This DBT skill teaches that emotions follow a predictable sequence of prompting event → interpretation → biological changes → action urges → actions → aftereffects. Name the model.
What is the Model of Emotions?
This DBT mindfulness skill means noticing what is happening in the present moment without judging it as good or bad.
What is Observe?
This interpersonal skill means paying attention to the other person’s words, tone, and body language so you can respond thoughtfully instead of reacting automatically.
What is Active Listening?
This mood‑management strategy involves noticing what you’re feeling, naming the emotion, and checking whether it fits the facts.
What is Labeling the Emotion?
This advanced mood‑regulation strategy involves identifying the chain of internal and external events that led to an emotional reaction — including vulnerabilities, interpretations, and action urges — in order to understand where the emotion gained momentum.
What is a Chain Analysis?