States of Mind
When a person is acting based on their emotions without thinking about the consequences.
What is Emotional Mind?
Being in control of your mind rather than letting your mind be in control of you.
What is Mindfulness?
These are the three What skills.
What are Observe, Describe, and Participate?
These are the three How skills.
What are Don't Judge, Stay Focused, Do What Works?
What does DBT stand for?
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy?
When someone is planning out what they will do, for example, making New Year's Resolutions.
What is Reasonable Mind?
Being focused on one thing at a time.
What is Attention Control/Focused Mind?
The skill you would use if you needed to learn how to do a dance move for the very first time.
What is Observe?
The skill that would help if you noticed you were getting really angry at your friend and thinking they are the worst friend ever.
What is Don't Judge?
These are two assumptions of DBT.
What are.....?
The state of mind for a student who hears her friends talking behind her in class, notices the urge to turn around to talk to them, and decides to stay focused.
What is Wise Mind?
What you do when you notice that your mind has wandered.
What is bring your attention back/re-focus without judgement?
An example of this would be, "My face feels hot. My heart is racing."
What is Describe?
This skills requires to let go of negative feelings, let go of "shoulds," and play by the rules
What is Do What Works?
This means that two opposite ideas can be true at the same time.
What are dialectics?
Running out of the classroom is an example of being in this state of mind.
What is Emotional Mind?
Examples of this are your breath, an object, or an activity.
What are things you can focus on/bring your attention to?
When you Get into the Zone and become one with whatever you are doing.
What is Participate?
The skill you would use if you were taking a test and started to think about what the cafeteria would have for lunch.
What is Stay Focused?
These are the two components of Biosocial Theory.
What are Invalidating Environment and Biological Vulnerability?
The two skills you use to help get from your Emotional Mind into your Wise Mind.
What are the What and How skills?
These are two benefits of mindfulness.
What are....?
The "What" skill that would help if you noticed you were feeling distracted while the teacher is trying to teach a new topic in math.
What is Participate?
This is a non-judgmental description of Fortnite.
What is.......?
These are two goals of skills training.
What are....?
1) Mindfulness
2) Distress Tolerance
3) Emotion Regulation
4) Interpersonal Effectiveness
5) Walk the Middle Math