14.4.15 DBT

Question 1

vent

Answer 1

C2 to express a negative emotion in a forceful and often unfair way:
Please don’t shout - there’s no need to vent your frustration/anger/rage/spleen on me.
Some clients disagree with this, saying that they vent, and this helps them feel better.

Question 2

put up

Answer 2

to stay somewhere for the night:
We put up at a small hotel for the night.
Her partner regularly tells her that she’s stupid, worthless, and unlovable, that she’ll never find anyone else to put up with her, and so on.

Question 3

courier

Answer 3

a person or company that takes messages, letters, or parcels from one person or place to another :
I want to have this package delivered by motorcycle courier.
Jackie says she wants me to drop the packages off at the courier instead of having them pick the packages up.

Question 4

disproportionate

Answer 4

too large or too small in comparison to something else, or not deserving its importance or influence
There are a disproportionate number of girls in the class.
The country’s great influence in the world is disproportionate to its relatively small size.
Rather, the times to let
go of judgments are when they notice that they’re feeling pain that seems disproportionate to the situation they’re in or if they suddenly experience a painful emotion, especially anger or some variation of anger.

Question 5

disproportionate

Answer 5

too large or too small in comparison to something else, or not deserving its importance or influence
There are a disproportionate number of girls in the class.
The country’s great influence in the world is disproportionate to its relatively small size.
Rather, the times to let
go of judgments are when they notice that they’re feeling pain that seems disproportionate to the situation they’re in or if they suddenly experience a painful emotion, especially anger or some variation of anger.

Question 6

resent

Answer 6

C2 to feel angry because you have been forced to accept someone or something that you do not like:
She bitterly resented her father’s new wife.
[+ -ing verb] He resents having to explain his work to other people.

Question 7

predisposition

Answer 7

the state of being likely to behave in a particular way or to suffer from a particular disease:
She has an annoying predisposition to find fault.
There is evidence that a predisposition to(wards) asthma runs in families.
According to Linehan’s biosocial theory (1993a), emotion dysregulation (emotional vulnerability plus the inability to regulate one’s emotions) stems from a biological predisposition and the individual’s interaction with the environment (Miller et al., 2007).
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Question 8

escalates

Answer 8

to become or make something become greater or more serious:
His financial problems escalated after he became unemployed.
The decision to escalate UN involvement has been made in the hopes of a swift end to the hostilities.
The escalating rate of inflation will almost certainly bring escalating prices.
When she is unable to succeed in meeting these expectations, the environment punishes her for communicating these negative experiences and responds to her emotional displays only when she escalates, essentially teaching her to alternate between stifling her emotions and communicating emotions in extreme ways in order to get help (Koerner & Dimeff, 2007).

Question 9

stifling

Answer 9

preventing something from happening:
stifling bureaucracy
When she is unable to succeed in meeting these expectations, the environment punishes her for communicating these negative experiences and responds to her emotional displays only when she escalates, essentially teaching her to alternate between stifling her emotions and communicating emotions in extreme ways in order to get help (Koerner & Dimeff, 2007).