DBT
Mindfulness
Distress Tolerance
Emotion Regulation
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Real Life Scenarios
Walking The Middle Path
100

What does DBT stand for? 

What is Dialectical Behavioural Therapy. 

100

What is Mindfulness? 

Paying attention to the present moment without judgment

100

What is STOP?  

 A crisis survival skill that reminds you to pause before acting impulsively.

100

What are emotions?  

What are clues from your body and mind that tell you how you're feeling.

100

What is the skill that helps you be assertive and gets your wants and needs met?

What is DEAR MAN.

100

You can't change that a concert was canceled, what Distress Tolerance skill could you practice?

What is Radical Acceptance. 

100

What skill means acknowledging and understanding another person's feelings. 

What is Validation. 

200

What are the 4 main DBT skill modules.  

What is Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness.

200

What is "Observe"?

This skill helps you observe thoughts and feelings without getting swept away by them. 

200

What is Willfulness? 

Not facing reality, digging in heals and not wanting to change or get help.

200

What is Opposite Action?

What is acting in the opposite of what an unhelpful emotion urges you to do.  

200

What does the "G" in GIVE stand for? 

What is "Gentle".

200

You get a bad grade and immediately want to quit the class. What skill says to pause before reacting.

What is the STOP skill.

200

You think, "I failed one test, so I'm terrible at school." This thinking trap is this called:

What is all-or-nothing (black-and-white) thinking.

300

Name 3 benefits of DBT? 

Strengthens relationships, soothes oneself, working through conflict, recognize emotions and cope with difficult emotions. 

300

What are Observe, Describe and Participate? 

The three "What' skills in DBT.

300

This skill involves using your 5 senses to calm yourself.

Double Jeopardy if you can name the 5 senses? 

What is Self-Soothe.

vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch and movement 


300

What are 2 things I can ask myself when using the skill Check the Facts? 

1. What event triggered the emotions

2. Am I making assumptions or interpretations 

3. Remember that thoughts, feelings and emotions are not facts  

4. Does my emotion and intensity match the facts of the situation 

300

What does the "M" in DEAR MAN stand for? 

What is "Mindful"

300

Before responding to a mean text, what state of mind helps you balance emotions and facts?  

What is Wise Mind. 

300

When Validation does not necessarily mean you are doing this...

What is agreeing.

400

What is Dialectics?

What is that two things that seem opposite can both be true at the same time.

400

Name 3 activities that you can practice doing mindfully? 

What is colouring, body scan, deep breathing, mindful eating, walking, brushing teeth or hair. 

400

Name the Distress Tolerance skill designed to help cope with intense emotion.

What does it stand for?

What is TIPP.

T-temperature I-Intense Exercise P-Paced Breathing P-PMR (progressive muscle relaxation)  

400

Activities and behaviours that make a positive impact on one's mood and overall emotional state is called?

What is building positive experiences. 

  

400

What is FAST skill?

It is the skill that helps maintain self-respect in relationships.

400

If you're feeling angry and want to isolate yourself. What skill could you use?  

What is Opposite Action? 

400

Saying this phrase reflects a dialectical perspective: "I am doing my best ___ I can still improve."

What is "AND". 

500

Name 3 DBT skills you have developed and applied since starting Fresh Start? 

 
500

Name the 3 states of mind? 

What is Reasonable/Logic, Emotion and Wise. 
500

What is Radical Acceptance?

What is accepting reality as it is, even when you don't like it.  

500

Rehearsing a plan ahead of time so you can cope skillfully with an emotional situation is called? 

What is Cope Ahead.

500

What is the goal of Interpersonal Effectiveness?

The goal is to help build and maintain positive relationships, communicate assertively, set healthy boundaries and maintain self-respectful.

500

When you need to ask a teacher for an extension respectfully and clearly, what skill could you use? 

What is DEAR MAN.

500

When we (teens) want complete freedom and a parent wants complete control. Walking the Middle Path encourages us to finding this...

What is a compromise