DBT: Meta Skills Flashcards
1
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Meta skills include:
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- MEDDSS
- Wise Mind
- Effectively
- DEAR (WO)MAN - GIVE-FAST
- Nonjudgmental
- Radical Acceptance
2
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MEDDSS
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Mastery, Exercise, Diet, Drugs (meds and/or vitamins), Sleep, Spirituality - take your MEDDSS daily!
3
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Wise Mind
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Balance between emotional mind and logical mind
4
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Effectively
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Avoid less effective strategies and behaviors and find and practice effective ones, avoid judgments (e.g., better, worse, etc.)
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DEAR (WO)MAN
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- Describe what is needed
- Encourage listener to help
- Ask what is wanted/needed
- Reinforce others
- Willingness to tolerate not getting your way
- Observe what is going on in/around me
- Mindfully present in the current moment
- Appear confident
- Negotiate with others
6
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GIVE
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- Gentle in relationships
- Interested in others
- Validate others
- Easy manner
7
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FAST
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- Fair to self
- Apologize less
- Stick to values
- Truthful with self and others
8
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Nonjudgmental
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Describe things concretely (e.g., “I did not like being cut off,” rather than, “This guy who cut me off is an idiot!”)
9
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Radical Acceptance
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Accepting what you cannot change - don’t have control of a lot that happens around you or what others do; so, effectively focus energy/ attention on what you can control: yourself (thoughts, feelings, actions)
