Teenage Brain
The organ that controls your thoughts, feelings and body.
What is the brain?
True or False: Our emotions are not connected to our thoughts.
What is False.
The power of thought loop begins with a:
Thought
State a coping skill that will cool your anger.
What are deep breaths, counting, reframing thoughts, drawing, taking a walk.
List 2 stressors that can affect teenagers:
What are schoolwork, grades, relationships, divorce etc.
The person who is in control of their emotions.
True or False: it's only possible to experience one emotion at a time.
What is False
State a part of the thought loop:
Emotions, behavior, or impact
Our anger is often fueled by:
What are Negative thoughts or negative emotions.
True or False: When you're constantly at an 8-10 typical coping skills do not work.
False
The area of the brain responsible for rational decision making, organization, planning.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
Name a physical response to anger
What are sweating, feeling hot, rapid breathing.
Negative thoughts can be derailed by:
Counter or Reframing thoughts.
State when you realize you are in an angry state.
Heaving breathing, sweating palms, hot head.
State the purpose of the stress response (flight or fight response).
For survival.
The area of the brain responsible for enacting your flight or fight response and emotions?
What is Amygdala?
Identify the mindfulness strategy: a situation happens where you lose control, afterward you write down what you were feeling and the actions you took during that time.
What is self-reflection.
Jim says hi to Mark, but Mark doesn't say hi back. Jim thinks Mark is mad at him but doesn't have any evidence other than Mark not saying hi back. Use a counter thought to refute the claim.
Jim could think, well Mark usually says hi to me, maybe he didn't see me.
When we talk about anger, it is better to say trigger rather than make. Make implies that we do not:
Have a choice in reacting with anger.
One of the biggest sources of stress:
What is change.
A term that describes the amygdala separating from the prefrontal cortex, this is when you are under extreme emotional distress and think impulsively rather than rationally.
Flip Your Lid
The ability to share and understand feelings of others.
What is Empathy.
Reframe the thought: Linda ordered fries and a big mac from Mcdonalds, Linda receives her order but realizes her fries are not in her bag. Linda is angry and wants to yell at the incompetent teenagers working the drive through.
Linda could think about the fact that maybe it was the first day the teenager was working. Or other.
Sometimes we are so gripped by anger that it is hard to let go of it, even when we are presented with a way to reframe the situation. This is called:
What is a refractory state.
State a coping skill that can be used in emergencies (when you're in a constant state of stress and other skills are not working)
What is eating sour candy, putting your face in water.