Emotion Regulation
True or false: Difficulties controlling intense emotions (anger, shame, depression, or anxiety) can lead to problematic behaviors that can affect you and those around you.
TRUE
Engage in activities you enjoy!
*Ms. Gray's discretion
True or False: One would use ABC PLEASE skill to DECREASE positive emotions and INCREASE emotion vulnerability.
FALSE. One would use ABC PLEASE skill to INCREASE positive emotions and DECREASE emotion vulnerability.
True or false: Emotions come with specific action urges that push us to act in certain ways.
TRUE
"Riding the Wave" skill is fully experiencing your ______.
Emotion/feeling
True or False: Problematic behaviors are often ineffective solutions to intensely painful emotions.
TRUE
True or False: One can help manage their emotions when they make intentional efforts to increase positive emotions.
TRUE!
Accumulate positive emotions
Name a common action urge for sadness.
Withdrawing, isolating
True or False: Riding the Wave skill is when you DON'T act on the feeling.
TRUE
What you feel like doing when experiencing an intense emotion.
Name 3 prosocial activities that can help one accumulate positive emotions.
Anything will be accepted as long as the activities are prosocial.
What do the "B" and "C" stand for in ABC PLEASE skill?
Build mastery
Cope ahead of time with emotional situations
Provide an example of how one would apply opposite action skill.
*Ms. Gray's descretion
True or False: When you "Ride the Wave" of your emotions you want to JUDGE your emotions and try to DENY that you are experiencing them.
FALSE
To fight/attack
In your own words, why would someone want to accumulate positive emotions?
*Ms. Gray's discretion...
Can help us better regulate intense difficult emotions when they do arise...improves our mood...helps us to live a life worth living
*Ms. Gray's discretion*
May include the following...
Describe the situation
Describe a way you plan to cope ahead (DBT skills)
Imagine the situation
Rehearse coping effectively in your mind
When the emotion does not fit the facts of the actual situation. Or when the action urge is not going to benefit you or the other people involved.
*Ms. Gray's discretion*
When one fully experiences their emotions... doesn't fight them...sits with the emotion...nonjudgmentally accepts the emotion...doesn't act on the action urge of the emotion...doesn't try to get rid of the emotion or doesn't push it away...
What mindfulness skills help us identify the emotions we are experiencing? (These are the two skills we practiced during mindfulness module in greenhouse.)
Observe and Describe
Name a thinking error that can make it difficult to accumulate positives.
*Ms. Gray's discretion...
My life will never improve... I don't deserve to be happy... I don't enjoy anything... nothing will make me feel better
Name one way to DECREASE emotion vulnerability. (Hint: It can be done by using parts of the ABC PLEASE skill.)
Treat Physical Illness
Balance Eating
Avoid Mood Altering Drugs
Balance Sleep
Get Exercise
One can ________ emotions through opposite action.
CHANGE
Riding the Wave skill is practicing ________ of your current emotions.
Mindfulness