Healthy Coping Skills
When you're feeling overwhelmed, this coping skill involves taking slow, controlled breaths to calm your body's stress response.
What is deep breathing?
What unhealthy coping skill involves using alcohol or drugs to temporarily escape difficult emotions?
What is substance use?
What kind of boundary involves your privacy of personal space and preference of how you are touched?
What are physical boundaries?
Name what is on the menu for lunch today.
What are Chili Dogs?
David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?
Who is David?
This healthy coping skill uses movement, such as walking, running, or playing sports, to reduce stress and improve mood.
What is exercise?
What unhealthy coping skill involves taking out frustration or anger on other people rather than addressing the source of the problem?
What is aggression?
What type of boundary involves protecting your schedule by limiting commitments and deciding how much of your day is available to others?
What are time boundaries?
Name someone who has worked for this company the longest.
Who is Mark?
There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
What is none?
A one story house doesn't have stairs!
Instead of keeping emotions bottled up, this coping skill involves writing your thoughts and feelings in a notebook or diary.
What is Journaling?
What unhealthy coping skill involves criticizing yourself harshly and focusing on perceived failures or flaws?
What is negative self-talk?
What type of boundary involves respecting someone's personal property when it comes to giving and lending?
What are material boundaries?
Which staff member has a full-time job as a teacher?
Who is Rachael?
What month has 28 days?
What is all of them?
Every month has AT LEAST 28 days!
This coping skill involves being fully present or engaged in the current moment
What is mindfulness?
What unhealthy coping skill involves withdrawing from friends, family, and activities when feeling stressed or upset?
What is isolation?
What type of boundary helps protect your well-being by limiting conversations or interactions that leave you feeling drained or hurt?
What are emotional boundaries?
Name three of the five mental health professionals (therapists) that work at Brownstone
You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?
What is the match?
What mindfulness practice involves sitting quietly and focusing on your breath, thoughts, or sensations to increase awareness and reduce stress?
What coping skill involves ignoring a problem and hoping it will go away on its own?
What is avoidance?
What communication style involves expressing your needs and limits clearly and respectfully?
Assertiveness
Which staff member babysat Haley when she was growing up?
Who is Alecia?
You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
What is everyone on the boat is married?
There is no SINGLE person on board, just married couples