DBT Skills
The 4 major DBT skills
Mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation
The founders of AA
Bill and Bob
First symptom experienced as a sign you are developing a substance use disorder
Increased tolerance
These are people, places, things, feelings, and situations that cause cravings
Triggers
What does HALT stand for?
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
TIPP is used in this skill
Distress tolerance
The book used in NA
Basic Text
This neurotransmitter that affects the reward system floods the brain during use
Dopamine
An event that threatens recovery
High risk situations
A positive emotion that involves being thankful and appreciative
Gratitude
DEARMAN is used in this skill
Interpersonal effectiveness
Step 6 focuses on removing
character defects
How long it takes for the brain to recover from substance use
12-18 months
This helps you recognize what issues, patterns, and choices contributed to your relapse so that you can learn from it
Relapse autopsy
the 5 roles in family dynamics are
Opposite action is used in this skill
Emotion regulation
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it
Step 10
The part of the brain that is activated when you are triggered
Amygdala
largely psychological and mood-related, this occurs and continues after acute withdrawal symptoms have gone away is
Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome
TIPP stands for
temperature, intense exercise, paced breathing, progressive muscle relaxation
taking the judgmental “good” or “bad” labels out of emotions is part of this skill
Mindfulness
The year AA was founded
1935
Which part of the brain shows lower brain activity during drug use
Frontal cortex
The stages of relapse are
Emotional relapse, mental relapse, physical relapse
Cravings typically last ______ minutes
30 minutes