Coping Skills
Taking your mind off the problem for a while
What is Distraction?
Meditation and yoga is this type of coping mechanism
What is Mindfulness?
This is a personal example of a DISTRACTION skill
What is watching a show, eating a snack, taking a warm bath, exercising, etc?
True or false
Coping skills are used to avoid big problems in our lives
What is False?
Coping skills help us work through problems in a healthy way
This is an example of the SELF-SOOTHING method
What is any activity that uses one or more of the 5 senses (shower, eat a snack, get in your jammies, etc)
The participant who has the most children
Who is Olivia?
Doing something that is the opposite of your impulse and positive instead of negative
What is Opposite Action?
Calling your therapist, sponsor, family member or 911 is an example of this coping mechanism
What is using your CRISIS PLAN?
This is a personal example of Self-Soothing
What is Smelling candles, cooking, taking a shower, putting on comfy clothing, listening to comforting music, etc?
True or false
Coping skills help you focus on important things in your life
What is True?
When we cope with problems and ease or emotions it help us think clearer and tackle them better
This is the difference between a DEFENSE MECHANISM and a COPING MECHANISM
This participant could be the late night radio host of any "Quiet Storm Slow Jam Show"
Who is Briston?
Using tools and techniques to help express your feelings in a different way
What is Emotional Awareness?
Watching a movie or reading a book is this type of coping mechanism
What is Distraction?
This is an example of using EMOTIONAL AWARENESS
What is Journaling, Talking it Out, Going to Therapy, Thinking of Benefits, Forgiveness, Reframing, Positive Thinking, etc?
True or false
Every coping skill is healthy
What is False?
Some ways we learn to cope an not healthy like fighting or using substances
Avoiding the existence of problems or issues, taking out anger on someone unrelated, blocking traumatic memories, or making up reasons that you're right and not wrong and believing it are examples of this
What are DEFENSE MECHANISMS?
This participant can talk the most about any topic.
Who is Kimberly?
Centering and grounding yourself in the present moment
What is Mindfulness?
Journaling, drawing pictures, writing a song, and going to therapy are examples of which coping mechanism?
What is Emotional Awareness?
This is an example of CRISIS INTERVENTION
What is calling your sponsor, friend or family, calling a crisis line, 911, calling therapist or doctor, or going to the hospital, etc?
True or false
Coping skills are something everyone is born knowing how to do
What is False?
Coping skills are learned throughout our lives
This is how you tell if a coping skill is NOT healthy
What is, If it does more harm than good
This participant accidentally changed his pants in front of the whole zoom group.
Who is Joe S?
Contacting someone on your list of support when you can't manage what you're going through by yourself
What is Using a Crisis Plan?
Taking deep breaths and then walking away instead of fighting is this type of coping skill
What is Opposite Action?
This is an example of Mindfulness
What is meditation, prayer, relaxation, muscle relaxation, yoga, deep breathing, self-soothing senses, etc?
True or false
Coping skills are only used to help you relax
What is False?
Managing stress, anxiety, and depression is not always relaxing it sometimes takes hard work
This is the difference between SELF CARE and SELF SOOTHING
What is making decisions, setting schedules and saying no to others when you need to versus using your senses to make it through a difficult moment?
This participant always has the most motor oil of anyone on their body.
Who is Dwight?