DBT 1
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
The skills of Mindfulness include three actions. Observe, Describe, and ...
What is participate
When is the BEST time to use the bathroom during programming?
Alternative Question:What is the only planet to spin clockwise?
In between groups
Alternative Answer: Venus
What skills are meant to be done IN THE MOMENT to reduce intense emotions
Distress Tolerance skills
What does it mean to “experience your emotion”
Observe how you are feeling, step back and just notice it, don’t try to get rid of it or push it away
What is your favorite skill and when would you use it?
Multiple answers accepted
A person is sitting comfortably in a chair, clenching and relaxing their muscles from head to toe
What is progressive muscle relaxation
What is something you should be doing every night.
Alternative Question: What animal can fly backwards?
Filling out your Diary Card
Alternative Answer: Hummingbirds
What would be an example of opposite action for the emotion “sadness”
Get active, approach, don’t avoid, build mastery and increase pleasant activities
Name a PRO and CON of acting on impulsive urges (200)
PRO = immediate relief
CON = long term damage, suffering, impaired relationships
What are DBT skills used for?
Help people deal with a range of emotions and replace harmful behaviors with skillful behaviors
Help navigate relationships and life
Accepting things that we cannot change, despite feeling unhappy about
What is radical acceptance
Name the two therapists in the program
Alternative Question: What Weighs more and Blue Whale's Tongue or an Elephant?
Amy, Nicole, Phil
Alternative Answer: A Blue Whale's Tongue (6,000 lbs), Elephant's weigh up to 4,000 lbs
What does TIPP acronym stand for?
Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, Progressive muscle relaxation
DBT aims to replace _______behaviors with __________ behaviors
Problem, skillful
What does Dialectical mean
Dialectical = two opposite ideas can be true at the same time
When we use the describe skill, what is the ONLY thing we describe?
The FACTS
During Mindfulness what do we ask you to do?
Alternative Question: What is the only letter not in an US State Name?
Be Open, Participate, Quiet the Mind, Not engage in side conversations, practice non-judmentalness.
(Any other responses relevant are acceptable)
Alternative Answer:"Q"
Why do we use the PLEASE skill?
To reduce emotional vulnerability
Give an example of a time when you used "Opposite Action"
All appropriate answers accepted.
Someone who absolutely refuses to do their DBT homework is demonstrating this dialectic
Name at least two out of four parts of the GIVE skill
(be) Gentle, (act) Interested, Validate, and (use an) Easy Manner
Name one of the 8 DBT assumptions
People are doing the best they can
People want to improve
People need to do better, try harder, and be more motivated to change
Patients must learn new behaviors in all relevant contexts.
Patients cannot fail in therapy.
Patients may not have caused all of their own problems, but they have to solve them anyway
All behaviors (actions, thoughts, emotions) are caused.
Figuring out and changing the causes of behavior works better than judging and blaming.
The lives of our patients can be unbearable.
What does it mean to think dialectically
To have the ability to view issues from multiple perspectives
_________+___________= the middle path
acceptance and change