Distress Tolerance Skills - Video 29 - Flashcard Set
What are the different packages of DBT skills?
The DBT skills are made up of multiple packages of skills: enhancing awareness, accepting reality and tolerating distress, emotion regulation, and interpersonal skills.
What are the core mindfulness skills in DBT?
The mindfulness skills are the core skills, including observing, describing, and participating, followed by three antidote skills: non-judgmentally, one mindfully, and effectively.
What is radical acceptance?
Radical acceptance is a skill that helps individuals accept and cope with difficult or unpleasant situations, emotions, and experiences. It involves accepting reality as it is, without judgment or resistance, and acknowledging the limitations of one’s ability to change it.
What are the steps for radical acceptance?
The steps for radical acceptance include observing the situation and the responses without judgment, acknowledging that ‘it is what it is’ and accepting the reality of the situation, considering the causes of the discomfort or distress, trying to accept the situation with the mind, heart, and body, using techniques like breathing and visualization, practicing opposite action, coping ahead by imagining how to behave in a more accepting manner, attending to the physical sensations in the body associated with non-acceptance, allowing the emotions associated with the situation to come and go, recognizing that life can still be worthwhile even with pain or discomfort, and considering the pros and cons of accepting the situation, recognizing the advantages and disadvantages.
What is the ultimate goal of radical acceptance?
The ultimate goal of radical acceptance is where individuals have passed a tipping point and fully accept reality without judgment or resistance.
What are the challenges in learning all the DBT skills?
One of the biggest challenges in learning to use all these DBT skills is the way they are laid out, often experienced as separate modules like a smorgasbord of skills. The interrelationships between the skills and the different packages of skills need to be highlighted to make them more accessible and easier to use practically.
What is the importance of radical acceptance?
Radical acceptance is a valuable skill that can help individuals cope with life’s challenges and find peace in difficult situations. It leads to increased creativity and problem-solving abilities, and ultimately, a better quality of life.
What is the difference between radical non-acceptance and non-acceptance?
Radical non-acceptance involves aggressive resistance and tantrums, while non-acceptance is a quieter form of resistance and grudges. Acceptance involves partly accepting reality with the mind, but still holding onto emotional resistance or grudges.
What are the benefits of practicing radical acceptance?
Practicing radical acceptance can lead to increased creativity and problem-solving abilities, and ultimately, a better quality of life. It can help alleviate stress and solve problems by accepting reality as it is rather than fighting against it.
What are the steps involved in the process of radical acceptance?
The steps involved in the process of radical acceptance include observing the situation and the responses without judgment, acknowledging that ‘it is what it is’ and accepting the reality of the situation, considering the causes of the discomfort or distress, trying to accept the situation with the mind, heart, and body, using techniques like breathing and visualization, practicing opposite action, coping ahead by imagining how to behave in a more accepting manner, attending to the physical sensations in the body associated with non-acceptance, allowing the emotions associated with the situation to come and go, recognizing that life can still be worthwhile even with pain or discomfort, and considering the pros and cons of accepting the situation, recognizing the advantages and disadvantages.
What is the emotion regulation system?
We are made up of multiple systems, including the emotion regulation system, which has different parts of the brain, body, autonomic nervous system, cardiovascular system, gut, thinking, and experience of emotions.
What are the skills for finding the middle path?
The skills for finding the middle path or walking the middle path are skills of balance, movement, and resolving tension and opposition.
