Distress Tolerance | Distract | Radical Acceptance | Self-soothing/Pros & Cons | Improve the Moment |
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Tolerating pain effectively and without acting impulsively.
What is a goal of using distress tolerance skills?
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Wise mind "ACCEPTS"
What word do we use to remember how to distract?
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False
True or False: Radical acceptance is important because we have to learn how to try to eliminate pain in our lives.
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Five senses
We self-soothe using our _______.
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B & C
When you take a Vacation from your problems, it's important to remember which two things:
a) Take as long as you need to completely forget what's bothering you. b) Don't take vacations that will harm you or make the problem worse. c) Don't make the vacation too long. d) Try to take a friend with you on your vacation. |
False
True or False: Distress Tolerance skills are designed to help you solve your problems.
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Contributing
Comparisons Emotions Pushing Away Thoughts Sensations
Name a distracting skill other than Activities and how you might use it.
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Complete and total accepting in mind, heart, and body
In radical acceptance, what does "radical" mean?
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Helps you to tolerate distress skillfully
Helps to resist harmful urges ...Others?
What is an advantage of using Pros and Cons to survive a crisis?
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False
True or False: Praying to God to make a crisis go away is an effective way to improve the moment.
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True
True or False: Distress Tolerance skills are skills of acceptance.
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Contributing
Which distracting skill focuses on doing nice things for other people?
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Suffering
Pain without acceptance = __________
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[Group leaders' discretion]
For two team members: Give an example of self-soothing from your own experience.
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To find or create some purpose or value in the pain and make lemonade out of lemons.
What does it mean to find Meaning in a crisis?
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[Group leaders' discretion]
For two team members: Name a situation in which you might want to use distress tolerance skills.
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Activities
Self-sooth with vision and hearing One thing in the moment Vacation ...anything else?
If you distract yourself by watching a funny movie, which skills might you be using? Name at least two.
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Noticing that you are not accepting reality and then making an inner commitment to accept the situation as it is.
What does it mean to turn your mind?
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C
When using a Pros and Cons list to decide whether or not to act on an impulse, it is effective to consider which of the following:
a) Long term consequences b) Short term consequences c) Both a and b d) Neither a nor b |
[Group leaders' discretion]
For two team members: Give an example of how you have used improve the moment in your life.
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