DBT
Skills
Terms
DBT Assumptions
Acronyms
100

What does DBT stands for?

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

100

What are the 4 DBT skills/modules?

Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness

100

When despressed feelings make you want to lay in bed all day, but instead you exercise.

Opposite Action

100

People need to do better, try harder, and be more _____ to change.

Motivated

100

Having your needs met

DEAR MAN skills

200

What does DBT aim to replace?

DBT aims to replace problem behaviors with skillful behaviors. 

200

What skill is used to decrease impulsive behaviors? 

Distress Tolerance

200

Creating experiences you'll find pleasant that prompt pleasant emotions

Building positive experiences

200

People want to _____.

Change

200

Maintaining self-respect

FAST skills

300

What are two seemingly opposite balanced ideas in DBT at its center?

Acceptance of self and willingness to change

300

What are mindfulness skills used for?

To bring focus and attention to the present, calming yourself down, increasing awareness
300

This communicates that what you are feeling, thinking or doing doesn’t make sense or is considered inaccurate or an overreaction. (Opposite of a GIVE skill.)

Invalidation

300

People are doing the ____ they can.

Best

300

Maintaining relationships

GIVE skills

400

What is the purpose of DBT?

DBT helps people create a life worth living.

400

What skills does the TedTalk suggest we have more control over than we think we do?

Emotional regulation

400

Accepting your thoughts and feelings as they are

Nonjudgmental stance

400

There is no absolute _____.

Truth

400

Strategies for handling difficult situations, including vacation and relaxation

IMPROVE skills

500

What does Dialectical mean? 

Dialectical = two opposite ideas can be true at the same time. 

500

What skills are used when a person is having difficulties with keeping relationships steady? 

Interpersonal Effectiveness

500
With more control over your emotions comes more ________________.

Responsibility

500

People may not have created their own ____ but they have to ____ them anyway.

Problems/ Solve

500

To reduce vulnerability, doing what you can for your body's health.

PLEASE skills