Basics and History
Dime Game
IMPROVE
Middle Path
Feelings, Thoughts & Actions
100

What does DBT stand for?

What is dialectical behavior therapy? 

100

What module does the Dime Game fall under?

What is Interpersonal Effectiveness?

100

What module does the IMPROVE skill fall under?

What is distress tolerance?

100

What module does Cope Ahead fall under? 

What is mindfulness?

100

What module does this skill fall into?

What is a emotional regulation?

200

Name the 4 modules of DBT?

What are Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness?

200

Fill in the blank: The Dime game is used to figure out how to strongly  ________

What is Ask or Say No to something?

200

What does the I stand for?

What is Imagery?

200

What does the Middle Path Refer to?

What is finding the synthesis between opposites?

Also accepted: taking two things and finding the middle ground 

200

How do you define actions?

What is something you do or the way you behave?

300

Define dialectical thinking?

What is the ability to view issues from multiple or opposite perspectives and to acknowledge both can be true?

The focus in DBT is on an integration of acceptance and change.

300

How do you use the Dime game?

What is ask yourself questions and then count up total to know how strongly to ask for something or say no to something? 

300

fill in the blank: Distress tolerance tools are strategies to help you get through difficult feelings and situations and tolerate (deal with, sit with, accept) the things that you cant immediately _____. 

What is change? 

300

Name two strategies for walking the middle path? 

What are any of the following: try balancing your reasonable mind and emotion mind, journaling to find the common ground, talking out situation, taking others perspectives

300

What are the 2 benefits of knowing the ways these three interact?

What are any 2 of the following: allow you to determine which coping skill to use, gain new information on you react to certain situations, what things may be triggering to you, how to change your thoughts, feelings, and actions at any time, gain attunement to ourselves, hold feelings better

400

What branch of therapy is DBT based on?

What is cognitive behavioral therapy?

400

Name one question you may ask yourself in the Dime Game

What is answers will vary?


400

Why might we use IMPROVE for? 

What is a distracting tool to escape or improve your present distressing situation for a moment so that you can return to it with a better mindset? 

400

What color is Jill's?

What is currently red? 

400

What is it called: Being aware of the present moment and focusing our attention on the here and now?

What is mindfulness?

500

Name the when, who, and why of founding DBT treatment

Who is Marsha Linehan in 1993 as a treatment for personality disorders?  

Double point extra credit if you acknowledged the influence of Eastern religious & philosophical traditions!

500

Who grew up in the forest foraging for berries? 

Who is Brian?

500

What does the P stand for? And bonus.. what did we change it to?

What is Prayer? Bonus: Perspective

500

What other two skills pair well with walking the middle path?

What is WISE mind accepts, WISE Mind, Thoughts, feelings actions triangle, literally any other DBT skill you can name

500

Give three examples of times when you've used any DBT skill (cannot be the ones discussed today) and name the skill you used

What are: answers will vary?