Types of Skills
Taking your mind off the problem for a while is what type of coping skill?
What is Distraction?
Watching a movie or reading a book is what type of coping skill?
What is Distraction?
True or False: Coping skills are used to avoid problems in our lives?
What is FALSE?
Coping skills help us work through problems in a healthy way.
What is your favorite quality of yourself?
FREE POINTS!
What can you catch but not throw?
What is a Cold?
Treating yourself with kindness and respect means taking time to take care of your overall well-being is what type of coping skill?
What is Self Love?
Increasing your heart rate is what type of coping skill?
Exercise
True or False: Every coping skill is healthy?
What is FALSE?
Some ways that we learn to cope are not healthy for us! (ex: fighting, eating too much, running from problems, etc.)
Can you can calm down your body by slowing your breath?
What is Yes!
What do you call a fake noodle?
What is An Impasta?
A self-soothing skill that is designed to immediately connect you with the present moment is what type of coping skill?
What is Grounding?
What is a coping skill?
What is A coping skill is something we can do to help manage our feelings or to deal with stressful situations?
True or False: Healthy coping skills help you focus on the important things in your life?
What is TRUE?
When we can cope with problems in our lives, it is easier to focus on everything else that is important to us!
How are coping skills helpful?
What is Builds confidence, manages emotions, helps us tackle challenges, etc.?
I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?
What is a Candle?
Doing nice things for others gives all kinds of different great feelings and often times causes a greater appreciation and gratitude for your own life. This skill also makes you feel part of something bigger than yourself. What type of coping skill is this?
What is Access Your Higher Self?
Picturing a light switch, in your mind and imagine yourself actually moving it from ON to OFF stopping the drug or alcohol thoughts and tying a rubber band loosely around your wrist, pulling the band and snap it lightly against your wrist as you say, “NO”, to the drug/or alcohol thoughts - is what type of coping skill?
Thought-Stopping Techniques
True or False: Coping skills are something everyone is born knowing how to do?
What is FALSE?
Coping skills are learned throughout our lives.
What makes a coping skill unhealthy?
What is If it does more harm than good to myself or others; Examples: substance use, excessively spending money, self-harm, etc.?
What has many keys but cannot open any doors?
What is a Piano?
This will help you to consider negative thoughts from multiple angles, using actual evidence from your life is what type of coping skill?
What is Thought Challenge?
Meditation and yoga is what type of coping skill?
What is Mindfulness?
True or False: Everyone has the same coping skills?
What is FALSE?
What works for me might not work for everyone. That's why there are so many coping skills options!
When does a healthy coping skill become unhealthy?
What is:
1. When it is done excessively and in a unhealthy way?
2. When it negatively affects your life?
Where does today come before yesterday?
What is the Dictionary?