Distress Tolerance - Post assessment

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1.Developing a room in your mind that is safe and serene where you can go
when feeling considerable distress is an example of what skill?

Grounding with visualization.

Self-soothing by turning your mind to a soothing image

Distracting with Thoughts.

Improving the moment with Imagery

Distracting with Pushing Away harmful thoughts

2.Crisis survival skills focus on:

Natural disaster preparedness strategies

How to get through the crisis without making things worse

Learning how to confront the problem

Surviving and processing traumatic experiences

3.Focusing on “opposite emotions”:

None of the above.

Should only be used when the emotion you are experiencing is a primary
emotion, such as pain, sadness, or anger.

Is not a good approach because the emotions one feels during a crisis are
important to experience in order to understand the problem.

Is problematic because it leads to people expressing “false” emotions.

Involves sitting quietly and reflecting on a specific occasion when you

experienced the opposite emotion.

4.Holding ice in your hand is an example of what Distress Tolerance skill?

Endurance

Self-discipline

Numbing

Re-directing distress

Sensations

5.How many sets of crisis survival strategies are there?

6.Which statement best defines the skill of comparisons?

Comparing yourself to others who are in a similar predicament and who are
coping in ways that are comparable to how you are coping.

Comparing yourself to someone who is worse off than you.

Comparing yourself to someone who has solved the problem you are
experiencing

Comparing yourself to others who are better off than you are

7.Distracting by watching TV as a Distress Tolerance skill:

None of the above

Is not a crisis survival skill because watching T.V. is a way to avoid reality

All of the above

Is not a crisis survival skill because watching TV causes people to “numb

out,” rather than to actually reduce painful feelings

Should be avoided because it can easily be done mindlessly.

8.Which of the following statement(s) items is/are correct about the

ACCEPTS and the Self-Soothing skills?

(D) ACCEPTS skills require an effort to simultaneously work on solving

the problem generating the crisis, whereas self-soothing skills can be
applied independent of working on solving the problem.

(C) Self-soothing skills should be applied first before progressing to the

more complicated and difficult ACCEPTS skills.

(A) & (D)

(B) ACCEPTS skills help a person take their mind off a distressing
situation by distracting from whatever is causing them distress, whereas
self-soothing skills are for adding comfort and soothing to a distressing
situation to make the current situation more tolerable.

(A) ACCEPTS skills are intended to help a person accept the situation as it
currently is whereas self-soothing skills are intended to help a person
distract from the current situation by focusing on soothing activities
instead.

9.Etta broke her leg and had a terrible time getting around on crutches,
which was very frustrating and upsetting. During particularly hard
moments, Etta, a physical therapist, made herself feel better by thinking
about how much she was learning about the challenges her physically
disabled clients faced. Which DBT Distress Tolerance skill is this an
example ?

Perspective

Meaning

Comparisons

Looking on the Bright Side

Empathy

10.What are the main subsets or categories of skills in the Distress

Tolerance module?

Building Positive Experiences and Grounding Strategies

Crisis Survival Strategies and Grounding Strategies

Grounding Strategies and Reality Acceptance skills

Crisis Survival Strategies and Building Positive Experiences

Reality Acceptance and Crisis Survival Strategies