Understanding Emotions
What are the 8 Basic Emotions?
fear, anger, happiness, shame, disgust, surprise, sadness, interest
Describe how to use PLEASE to reduce emotional vulnerability?
PL-Treat Physical Illness
E-Balanced Eating
A-Avoid Mood Altering Substances
S-Balanace Sleep
E-Get Exercise
What are Action Urges?
withdraw, avoid, attack, or hide
A scale in which you rate your level of distress from 1-no distress to 10-most distress?
SUDS
Subjective units of distress scale
What is the purpose of emotions?
. Emotions communicate to others; 2. Emotions organize and motivate action; 3. Emotions can be self validating
What is ABC in Emotion Regulation?
Accumulate positive emotions, build mastery and cope ahead
What is opposite to emotion action?
If the emotion is unjustified, go against your action urge
Finding the synthesis between two different sides - this is NOT a compromise?
Dialectics
What is a myth about emotions?
painful emotions are not really important and should be ignored
What skill are you using if; You imagine yourself handling the worst case scenario in a difficult upcoming situation?
Cope Ahead
When you have an emotion and you observe it but don’t let it stick, you are using this skill?
TEFLON MIND
Mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness are what?
4 DBT Skills Training Modules
What is a model for describing emotions?
a model describing what happens when you react to an internal or external event
You are doing this when you FOCUS your attention on positive events, and keep REFOCUSING on the positive when your mind wanders to the negative?
Being mindful of positive experiences
When you have an emotion and you observe it but don’t let it stick, you are using this skill?
What is the goal of DBT?
To create a life worth living
What is justified versus unjustified emotion?
An emotion being appropriate to the circumstance versus not appropriate to the circumstance is an example of this versus this
What kind of thoughts are these; “Now that I got this raise, they are going to want me to work harder” or “My LOA is going to end soon and them I’m back to KPH?"
Thoughts that decrease positive emotions
A person who is thinking “I am miserable..I just keep thinking about my problems..I can’t let them go.. and they feel bigger and bigger” is doing this?
Catastrophizing, Turning Emotion into a Mood, Creating Emotional Suffering
The theory that emotional dysregulation develops through the interaction between invalidating environment and an emotionally vulnerable individual?
Biosocial Theory