DBT Basics and Mindfulness
This therapy combines acceptance and change strategies to help people manage intense emotions.
What is DBT?
These short-term skills are used when you can’t make things better right away.
what is crisis survival skill?
This is the middle path between Emotion Mind and Rational Mind.
What is wise mind?
This simple facial expression skill softens resistance and helps practice radical acceptance.
What is half-smiling and open hands?
The word that means two things seem opposite can be true at the same time.
What is dialectical?
This acronym reminds you to pause before acting on impulse: Stop, Take a step back, Observe, and Proceed mindfully.
What is STOP skill?
When you act only on feelings and urges, you are in this mind state.
What is emotional mind?
This DBT skill teaches us to list the good and bad outcomes of using or not using a distress tolerance strategy.
What is thinking about the pros and cons?
This is the practice of paying attention to the present moment, on purpose, without this.
What is mindfulness?
This DBT concept means fully acknowledging reality as it is, even if it’s painful.
What is radical acceptance?
What is treating yourself as if you are treating a loved one?
What is self-compassion?
Mindfulness helps us return to this zone when emotions feel too high or too low.
What is window of tolerance?
These two words describe the difference between cooperating with life as it is and resisting it.
What is willingness and wilfulness?
They are four components of self-compassion.
What are acknowledging pain, nromalising pain, treating with kindness, and alleviating the pain?