Mindfulness
Emotion Regulation
Distress Tolerance
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Middle Path/Miscellaneous
100

The basis for all DBT

What is Mindfulness?

100

Having severe difficulty in managing one's emotions

What is Emotional Dysregulation?

100

This skill uses temporary distractions to help us get through a tough situation

What is ACCEPTS?

100

This skill helps us advocate for our needs and say no when necessary

What is the DEARMAN skill?

100

This skill allows us to let small problems roll off our backs

What is Turtling?

200

This skill prevents us from acting impulsively when we are not being mindful

What is the STOP skill?

200

This skill helps you manage your physical well being

What is the PLEASE skill?

200

This skill uses the five senses to help us tolerate distress

What is Self Soothe (or Grounding)?

200

This skill gives us encouraging statements to ourselves

What are Cheerleading Statements?

200

This skill helps us to accept the things about ourselves we cannot change

What is Love Dandelions?

300

State of mind necessary to use DBT skills

What is Wise Mind?

300
What each letter in ABC stands for (two out of three will get you the point)

What is Accumulate Positive Experiences, Build Mastery, and Cope Ahead?

300

What each letter in TIPP stands for (three out of four will get you the point)

What is Temperature, Intense Exercise, Paced Breathing, and Progressive Muscle Relaxation?

300

These two skills help us maintain positive relationships with others

What are the GIVE and THINK skills?

300

This skill helps us to let go of harmful or problematic things in our life

What is Monkey Trap?

400

The two states of mind that mindfulness helps to pull us out of

What are Rational Mind and Emotional Mind?

400

This skill helps you to sit with your emotions and pull you out of Rational or Emotional Mind

What is Ride the Wave?

400

This skill helps us tolerate distress by finding meaning in painful situations

What is the IMPROVE skill?

400
This skill helps us maintain a healthy/positive relationship with ourselves

What is the FAST skill?

400

Communicating to someone else that their opinions/emotions make sense and are understandable/reasonable in their particular situation

What is validation?

500

This skill helps us stay mindful by observing, describing, and participating in the moment

What is the WHAT and HOW skill(s)?

500

The purpose of the emotion of sadness

What is processing loss?

500

The purpose of Distress Tolerance

What is the ability to sit through painful emotions without making anything worse?

500

The three goals of Interpersonal Effectiveness

What are maintaining healthy relationships, building self esteem/respect, and advocating for our needs?

500
The two things that DBT tries to balance

What are Acceptance and Change?