DBT Distress Tolerance Skills: Tip Skill, Stop Skill, and More
Key Points
- Distress tolerance skills are used for crisis situations.
- Distress tolerance skills assist in accepting reality when reality is difficult to accept and/or strong urges to engage in unskillful behavior are present.
- Popular distress tolerance skills include the TIP skill, STOP skill, Half-Smile, Willing Hands, and Radical Acceptance.
