Healthy/Unhealthy Coping Skills
Name TWO Healthy Coping Skills
True/False: Coping Skills can be learned and improved with practice.
TRUE!
This Coping Skill involves challenging negative thoughts and replacing them with more positive realistic ones.
Positive Affirmations. How can positive affirmations help YOU?
Technique used to stop/reduce impulses or manage intense emotions, like a surfer on a wave.
What is riding the wave?
This character is a banana and somehow still a fan favorite.
Who is Peely?
Name THREE Unhealthy Coping Skills
Fighting, Yelling and Insulting
True/False: Avoiding problems and emotions is a HEALTHY coping strategy.
False. To a certain extent... Why?
What Coping Skill involves writing down your thoughts and feelings as a way to help process them?
Journaling. What are some benefits of journaling?
When we do the opposite of what our emotions are telling us to do, especially when the emotion isn’t helpful or justified by the situation.
What is opposite action?
This body part is illegal to use in soccer... unless you're the goalie.
What are hands?
When does a Healthy Coping Skill become UNHEALTHY?
When you do it excessively or start to do it in an unhealthy way. Ex. Taking a Nap could be a positive coping skill, but it is not beneficial when you do it too much
True/False: Coping Skills are ONLY useful during times of crisis or extreme stress.
False
Which Coping Skill involves engaging in letting things be what they are, instead of attaching labels, criticism, or mental stories to them?
Non-judgment! It means observing your thoughts, emotions, experiences, and the world around you without immediately labeling them as good, bad, right, wrong, ugly, beautiful, etc.
When we recognize and respect our feelings while responding to them in a rational way.
What is wise mind?
This is the reason soccer players sometimes act like they got hit by a truck, even if they barely got touched.
What is flopping?
How do Unhealthy Coping Skills affect us?
Hurt us, hurt others, can cause more problems
True/False: Negative Coping Skills and Positive Coping Skills are the SAME.
False
What Coping Skill involves practicing acceptance of situations that cannot be changed?
This is called Radical Acceptance. This is a practice that involves accepting emotions or circumstances that we cannot change and are out of our control. Why is this important?
What are some examples of healthy coping skills that have been shown to reduce symptoms?
Mindfulness meditation, deep breathing exercises, journaling, physical exercise, and seeking social support. These coping techniques have been scientifically proven to promote relaxation, reduce negative thinking patterns, and improve overall psychological well-being.
This is the name of the giant blue creature that flies you into the game.
What is the Battle Bus?
What is ONE Positive Coping Skill you would like to try that you have not tried yet?
Answers Vary! What are the ones that work best for you?
True/False: ALL stress is out of our control.
False. Not ALL stress is out of our control, but HOW we COPE with stress is what MATTERS.
Which Coping Skill encourages individuals to seek use problem skills to work through a disagreement?
Conflict Resolution! These skills can help streghten relationships, and avoid more serious problems.
-Stay calm
-Talk, listen and be patient
-Think of solutions that work for everyone
-Respect the opinion of others
D-Decribe M-Mindfulness
E-Express A-Appear Confident
A-Assert N-Negotiate
R-Reinforce
What is DEAR MAN? Effective strategy to communicate better with other.
This animal was once used instead of a soccer ball in ancient times.
What is pig's bladder?