What?
This provides humans with information that something is happening or possibly wrong, sometimes by intuition.
What is an emotion?
This DBT skill set includes accumulating positive emotions, fostering confidence, preparing for difficult situations as well as reducing vulnerability to emotion mind.
What are ABC PLEASE skills?
PLEASE skills help reduce _________ to our emotional mind.
What is Vulnerability?
Asking yourself, what are my interpretations, thoughts, beliefs about this?
What is Check the Facts?
Taking action that is contrary to an emotion, when it does not fit the facts.
What is Opposite Action?
This emotion is justified when something you come into contact with can poison or contaminate you.
What is Disgust?
This skill is used when to help prepare for a difficult situation and practice coping well with anything that may occur.
What is Cope Ahead?
Taking care of your body, seeing a doctor when necessary, and taking medications as prescribed are part of this letter in the PLEASE skill.
What is P and L = Treat PhysicaL Illness
This step can help us get started when using Check the Facts skill.
What is Describe the Prompting Event?
Approaching a difficult situation is the opposite of this emotion.
What is Fear/Anxiety?
These two emotions are often confused: ______ is when another person or group gets or has things you don’t have that you want or need; ______ is when there is a threat that a valued relationship or object and it may be taken from you, damaged, or lost.
What are Envy and Jealousy?
This skill includes making an effort to improve skills and talents, it fosters self-efficacy and a sense of accomplishment.
What is Build Mastery?
Staying away from nonprescribed and illicit drugs, alcohol, and other substances that may greatly affect our emotions is this part of the PLEASE skills.
What is A = Avoid Mood Altering Substances?
This step includes asking Am I assuming a threat? and assessing the probability that the threatening event will actually occur.
What is Step 4 in Check the Facts?
Becoming active, changing your posture, and changing your body chemistry are opposite actions for this emotion.
What is Sadness?
This emotion is Justified when it enhances quality of life for you or for those you care about or increases your chances of attaining your goals.
What is Love?
It is helpful to relate long term goals to these.
What are Values?
After 30-60 minutes, evaluate whether you are calm, anxious, or ruminating, and address that in order to practice this skill.
What is the Sleep Hygiene Protocol?
This step involves asking What's the Catastrophe? and asks you to imagine coping well with the catastrophe if it occurs. It is similar to another skill.
What is Step 5 in Check the Facts?
It is recommended to consider this skill if the emotion is justified, or fits the facts.
What is Problem Solving?
This emotion is considered Justified if your behavior violates your own values or moral code; Opposite actions include apologizing, repairing transgressions, committing to future change, understanding where our behaviors came from, and increasing self-compassion.
What is Guilt?
It is important to be Un-Mindful of worries when using this skill, and be in the present moment.
What is Accumulate the Positives - Short term?
Not eating too much or too little, getting an amount of sleep that helps you feel rested, and doing some sort of daily exercise, including walking are these three letters of the PLEASE skill.
What are skills E, S, and E: Balance Eating; Balance Sleep; and Get Exercise.
Examining these can help us use the Check the Facts skill.
What are thoughts?
This is an important step in the Problem Solving skill.
What is (any of the following is correct):
Check the facts; Create realistic, short-term goal; Brainstorm solutions; Pros and cons