Communication
This communication is characterized by avoiding conflict and not asserting personal needs and/or wants.
What is passive communication?
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy?
Protecting your feelings, managing emotional responses, and not carrying others' emotions as your own are all examples of this type of boundary.
What is an emotional boundary?
This model connects thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
What is the cognitive triangle?
This chemical in the brain is linked to pleasure and reward.
What is dopamine?
Maintaining eye contact, a confident tone, and an ability to compromise are all examples of ways to engage in this kind of communication.
What is assertive communication?
This is one of the four DBT modules.
What is Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness?
Being overly trusting, oversharing personal information, and passive communication are all characteristics of this boundary style.
What are porous boundaries?
All or nothing thinking, catastrophizing, mind reading, and emotional reasoning are all examples of this.
What is a cognitive distortion?
This part of the brain controls decision-making and impulse control.
What is the frontal lobe (prefrontal cortex)?
Name one skill used in active listening.
What is keeping the conversation on the other person, utilizing nonverbal communication (head nods, eye contact), reflecting what you hear, listening to understand, etc.?
This skill refers to the idea of accepting a situation but does not require you to agree with the situation.
What is radical acceptance?
Keeping people at a distance, tending to ignore others' opinions, and having inflexible personal values are all characteristics of this boundary style.
What are rigid boundaries?
This refers to identifying, challenging, and reframing unhelpful thoughts with more balanced, structured ones.
DAILY DOUBLE (See answer)
What is cognitive restructuring/reframing?
DAILY DOUBLE: "I'll never recover" --> Reframe this cognitive distortion into a more balanced, structured thought.
This part of the brain is responsible for fear and emotional reactions.
What is the amygdala?
This communication style often involves speaking in a loud, overbearing way, interrupting others, and using criticism or humiliation.
What is aggressive communication?
This is the state of mind that balances both logic and emotion.
What is wise mind?
A peer asks for a cigarette and you tell them no, but they continue to ask until you feel uncomfortable. What type of boundary is being crossed?
What is a material/financial boundary?
This behavior involves getting in your own way or undermining personal progress and can sometimes be driven by subconscious negative beliefs about yourself.
What is self-sabotage?
What is tolerance?
"I feel frustrated when you talk over me" is an example of this.
DAILY DOUBLE (See answer)
What is an I statement?
DAILY DOUBLE: "You are annoying me" --> Turn this into an I statement.
An example of a distress tolerance skill.
What is TIPP, self-soothing with senses, ACCEPTS, 5-4-3-2-1, etc.?
What is the ability to say no, taking time to build trust with others, accepting conflict as a normal part of life, valuing the opinions of self and others, communicating assertively, etc.?
This type of therapy is designed to help people overcome fears, anxieties, and/or traumatic memories by safely and gradually confronting them.
What is exposure therapy?
This term refers to the phenomenon where the brain can adapt and form new neural pathways.
What is neuroplasticity?