effectiveness skills and, 175
Decreasing unwanted behaviors, 
162. See also  Behavior change 
skills
Describing a problem behavior, 
20, 21, 31, 35
Describing skills. See also  “How” 
skills; Mindfulness practice; “What” skills
core skills practice, 79, 80, 
81–82
DEAR MAN skills and, 
125–127
emotion regulation skills and, 
198
ending relationships and, 185interpersonal effectiveness 
scripts and, 174
mindfulness of others and, 143model for describing emotions, 
213
overview, 40, 49, 53, 58–59overview of handouts and 
worksheets for, 40–41
practicing, 84–88problem solving and, 241understanding and naming 
emotions and, 281–282
ways to describe emotions, 
214–222
Destructive relationships, 145–146Dialectical abstinence, 357, 
404–406. See also  Addiction
Dialectics. See also  Walking the 
Middle Path
addiction and, 317checklist for, 190identifying, 154noticing when you aren’t 
dialectical, 191
overview, 150–154practicing, 189Walking the Middle Path and, 
149
Diet, 257, 294, 303Difficult emotions. See also  
Emotion regulation skills
emotion regulation skills and, 
202
handling, 311–312managing, 263managing extreme emotions, 265mindfulness of current emotions 
and, 264, 311
Dime Game, 176–177Direct experience, 69Disgust
changing emotional responses 
and, 229