5 Ways to Deal with a Problem
Distress Tolerance Skills Collection • 2m 24s
Learn five basic ways to deal with a problem. The DBT Skills on this video platform will give you the tools that you need to deal effectively with problems.
1. Stay miserable
2. Make things worse by acting ways that may lead to negative consequences now or in the future.
3. Problem solve the situation
4. Change how you feel about the problem by changing your interpretation or changing the emotion through opposite-action.
5. Practice acceptance of the problem.
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