A check on asking or saying no with facts, a clear request, and a steady tone.
About this test
Marsha Linehan's dialectical behavior therapy organizes skills into mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. These items ask you to notice, name, ride a spike, or make a clean request. The percent is how often the answer matched the skill. DBT was built for people in intense pain. This page is education in the skills, not therapy and not a diagnosis.
Question 1 of 11
What this test asks
You want to describe a problem before you ask. Which opening is description?
Express, in this script, is which piece?
The assert piece of the ask should sound like:
Reinforce is the sentence that:
The talk drifts into an old argument about a holiday. Staying mindful means:
Appearing steady is about your manner. What fits?
They offer to do the sink on weekends only. A negotiation would include:
You need to say no to an extra shift. Which script is a clean no?
Why do hints fail so often in this skill?
You wrote the script and it is half a page. What edit helps?
They interrupt with a complaint about you. What is the return-to-the-point move?
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