Crisis Survival
This scale is used to help determine whether to use Distress Tolerance or Emotional Regulation skills.
What is the SUDS (Subjective Units of Distress) Scale? (Distress levels from 0-100)
These two skills ask a person to change their posture and expression to create a calm and open feeling and often are used in conjunction with one another.
What are willing hands and half-smile?
These are the 5 senses one uses when practicing soothing with the 5 senses.
Vision, Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch
This is a service this office provides to clients to help coach them through skills over the phone.
What is DBT call time?
This is the primary purpose of crisis survival skills.
What is to lower SUDS level? (or to decrease levels of distress that may result in ineffective and/or unsafe behavior/urges).
What are "small" things? (i.e. not capital "T" traumas or complicated life circumstances. Start instead with things like the weather, a flat tire, canceled plans, etc.)
These four actions make up the "S," "T," "O," and "P" in the STOP skill.
What is "Stop what you are doing," "Take a step back," "Observe," and "Proceed mindfully."
This is when a person can call the SWBH crisis line (812-422-1100).
24-hours a day, 7 days a week, even on holidays and weekends for any crisis or need.
These are 5 of the crisis survival skills.
What is STOP, Urge Surfing, TIPP, Pros and CONS, Soothing with the 5 sense, Distractions, Improve the moment?
This skill helps a person move their thinking out of willfulness, rejection of reality, and/or avoidance of reality.
What is turning the mind?
These four actions make up the "T," "I," and "P's" in TIP.
What are Temperature, Intense Exercise, Paced Breathing & Paired Muscle Relaxation?
This is something a client can build with their therapist to help cope effectively in times of crisis to keep themself safe.
What is a crisis response (safety) plan?
This skill is used to help ride out strong desires to engage in ineffective behavior caused by distress.
This barrier to radical acceptance can look like trying to control too many things or refusing to let go of something.
What is willfulness?
These are 5 of the options for using the distract skill. (hint: remember abbreviation "ACCEPTS")
Activities, Contributing, Comparisons, Emotions, Pushing away, Thoughts, and Sensations
This is the name of a group of skills (usually distress tolerance skills) that a client can develop for themself to help manage high distress and crisis.
What is a skills chain?
This is the best time to develop pros and cons lists.
What is when not in severe distress (i.e. not above 70 in the SUDs scale?)
What is radically accepting it again and again, over and over?
Imagery, Meaning, Prayer, Relaxing, One thing in the moment, Vacation, and Encouragement and rethinking (affirmations).
This is the top priority of any clinician at Southwestern Behavioral Healthcare.