Treatment Team
This medical professional helps teach you what is needed to fuel your body and helps you navigate your meal plan
What is my registered dietitian (RD)?
The macronutrient that is our body's #1 source of fuel
What are carbohydrates?
This therapy is aimed at helping us reduce destructive behaviors and handle intense or painful emotions.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
A way of living and behaving that serves as a "compass" or "guiding star" for our actions.
What is a value?
What is the difference between a lapse and a relapse?
Lapse: short-lived, temporary missteps typically seen as learning experiences and followed by returns to the recovery plan, etc.
Relapse: returning to the "old lifestyle," resuming regular use of/reliance on behaviors, etc.
This clinician helps you process your thoughts and feelings, navigate your treatment goals, and learn new skills
What is your therapist?
The list of minimum portions of each component we have throughout the day to ensure we are fueling our bodies enough to keep them working
What are meal plans?
The idea that two seemingly contradictory ideas can actually both be true at the same time
What is dialectics?
The skill of disentangling or detaching from our thoughts, rather than getting caught up in or "hooked" by the content.
What is cognitive defusion/unhooking?
Give an example of needful vs. needless suffering
Needless: Fighting thoughts and feelings, eating disorder behaviors, self-injury, avoidance, isolation, comparing our suffering to others', resisting reality, etc.
Needful: Facing fears, tolerating discomfort to heal from physical conditions caused by ED, ERP, urge surfing, etc.
What is a psychiatric provider (psychiatrist or psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP))
The five food groups in the Plate-by-Plate Method
What are grains/starches, proteins, produce, dairy, and fats?
The focus area of DBT that helps us learn how to communicate or behave in relationships in a way that makes it more likely we achieve our goals or produce our intended result.
What is interpersonal effectiveness?
The process of holding ourselves to using our values as guides for what we do
What is committed action?
What is the difference between healthy shame/guilt and toxic shame?
Healthy shame/guilt: "I made a mistake," reminds us that we acted in an unhealthy or maladaptive manner and helps us learn
Toxic shame: "I AM a mistake," "I did this, so I am bad/broken/wrong," keeps us stuck, self-punishing, and using harmful behaviors
This staff member is trained by clinical and dietary specialists to help you learn and use skills while at program
What is a BHT (behavioral health technician)?
A substance required for normal body function, growth, and repair that the body cannot produce, thus needing it from outside consumption
What is an essential nutrient?
The practice of learning to manage our intense feelings to increase our long-term stability and reduce our vulnerability to avoidable escalations
What is emotion regulation?
The idea that there is a part of you that is able to observe your thoughts, feelings, and actions at any given moment
What is self-as-context/the observing self?
Give 3 examples of a radical acceptance coping statement.
"I can feel this way and still deal with this situation effectively," "I can't change the past, but I can help shape the future," "I only have control over myself in the present moment," "I am uncomfortable, and I am still safe," "Everything that has happened led up to this moment," Others?
Someone you can talk to if you are feeling overwhelmed or need support
What is any staff member?
The term for the involuntary movement that moves material through the digestive tract
What is peristalsis?
The practice of learning to experience intense emotions without engaging in harmful actions as a result
What is distress tolerance?
The process of recognizing that some things are not within our control and letting go of the impossible struggle to control them
What is acceptance?
Name the 3 differences between a value and a goal
1) 100% in our control vs. not
2) Always accessible everywhere vs. not
3) Unachievable vs. achievable