Mindfulness
True or false: you can eat a french fry mindfully
True - tell me how
True or false: If we use our interpersonal effectiveness skills perfectly, others will always give us what we want
False
When do we use distress tolerance skills?
When experiencing intense distressing emotions / in a crisis
What makes regulating your emotions difficult?
(Intense emotions, impulsivity, environment, other people, etc)
This therapists' favorite animal is turtles (100 pts)
Sarah
Name a winter sport
Skiing, sledding, snowboarding, hockey, ice skating
Interpersonal effectiveness includes: asking for what you want, _________, and coping with conflict.
Saying no
What is snow made of?
Frozen crystalline water
What ER skill did you learn this week? Tell me what it means!
WAVE Skill - helps us to ride out intense emotions without acting on them instead of avoiding them or suppressing them.
This therapists' favorite animal is a bunny (100 pts)
Sophia
What is the WHAT skill?
Observe, Describe, Participate
Tell me each part of GIVE
Gentle, interested, validate, easy manner
What is a goal of distress tolerance?
Learn to tolerate emotional pain and distress and accepting our reality ensures pain doesn't turn into suffering
Give me an example of a scenario where you could use an emotion regulation skill
This therapists' favorite animal is a manatee (100 pts)
Skyler
What is the HOW skill and give me one example of how to use it?
One mindfully, non-judgementally, effectively
The Polar _______ (movie)
Express
What does ACCEPTS stand for?
Activities, contribution, comparison, emotions, thoughts, sensations
What state produces the most Christmas trees?
Oregon
This therapists' favorite animal is a dachshund (100 pts)
Abby
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As a group, show us a skit using GIVE and FAST
Activity
Walk me through examples for self-soothe
Activity
Act out a way to emotionally regulate
Activity
This therapists' favorite animal is a koala (100 pts)
Brittany