Core Mindfulness Skills Flashcards

Which instruction best captures the "participate" skill?

Answer: Throw yourself completely into the activity, becoming one with it

Participate means entering wholly into an activity with full awareness and without self-consciousness.

The "effectively" skill instructs clients to:

Answer: Focus on what works to reach their goals

Effectiveness means doing what works, letting go of being right, vengeance, and useless anger.

A client texting while eating and watching TV is asked to practice one-mindfully. What should they do?

Answer: Do one thing at a time with full attention

One-mindfully means doing one thing at a time and bringing attention back when distracted.

Which of the following is a wise mind practice from Linehan's skills manual?

Answer: Imagining being a stone flake fluttering down to the bottom of a clear lake

The stone flake on the lake is a classic wise mind exercise for settling into one's center.

Reasonable mind is characterized by:

Answer: Logical, rule-based thinking that ignores emotions

Reasonable mind approaches situations intellectually and logically while discounting emotions and values.

In the nonjudgmental skill, what may clients still acknowledge?

Answer: Whether something is helpful or harmful and their preferences

Nonjudgmental stance permits noting consequences (helpful or harmful) and values without labeling things good or bad.

Which of these is NOT one of the three DBT "what" skills?

Answer: Accept

The three "what" skills are observe, describe, and participate; acceptance appears in distress tolerance as radical acceptance.