Emotional Regulation & DBT Skills Flashcards
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In DBT, 'mindfulness of current emotion' involves observing feelings without acting on them. This skill targets which problematic anger pattern?
Answer: Impulsive reactive behavior driven by emotion mind
Mindfulness of current emotion creates distance between the feeling and behavior, reducing impulsive reactions driven by emotional mind.
A therapist uses 'cope ahead' with an anger-prone client before a difficult family gathering. What does this DBT skill involve?
Answer: Imagining a challenging scenario and mentally practicing effective coping responses
Cope ahead involves vividly imagining a stressful situation and mentally rehearsing DBT skills before the event occurs, improving in-the-moment effectiveness.
Which DBT principle states that all behavior, including anger outbursts, makes sense given a person's history and current context?
Answer: Radical validation
Radical validation acknowledges that a client's responses are understandable given their learning history and current circumstances, even if the behavior needs to change.
A client struggles with 'emotion regulation deficits' described in Linehan's biosocial theory. What two factors combine to produce this vulnerability?
Answer: Biological emotional sensitivity and an invalidating environment
Linehan's biosocial theory proposes that biological emotional sensitivity combined with chronic invalidating environments produces pervasive emotion regulation deficits.
When a client uses 'self-soothe with the five senses' during anger, which distress tolerance goal does this serve?
Answer: Surviving the crisis without making things worse
Self-soothe is a crisis survival skill aimed at tolerating distress without engaging in harmful behaviors, not at solving the triggering problem.
A CART practitioner notices a client consistently interprets neutral events as threatening, fueling chronic anger. This pattern is best described as:
Answer: Hostile attribution bias
Hostile attribution bias is the tendency to interpret ambiguous social cues as deliberately aggressive or threatening, which maintains and escalates anger.
In DBT emotional regulation, 'opposite action' is appropriate ONLY when the emotion is:
Answer: Unjustified or ineffective given the facts and goals
Opposite action is indicated when an emotion does not fit the facts or when acting on it would be ineffective or harmful given the client's goals.