Individual Coping Skills
This type of coping allows you to express your emotions and feelings and get everything out in the open rather than bottling it up.
What is talking and/or writing?
What is the main purpose of coping skills?
What is to help one tolerate, minimize, and deal with stressful situations in life?
Instant fixes for stress exist.
What is false?
Refusing to accept reality or facts.
What is denial?
Why are ghost bad liars?
What is seeing right through them?
This type of coping can help one relax, build energy, or take your focus off of stressors and onto words or sounds.
What is listening to music?
Name 3 unuseful coping skills.
What is self-harm, substance abuse, withdraw/isolation, fighting, bottling feelings up, etc.
Taking time for yourself each day is essential to coping with life.
What is true?
Attributing your own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and motives onto another person.
What is projection?
This type of coping focuses on your breath to help you relax.
What is deep breathing or meditation?
This involves using mental imagination to achieve a relaxed state of mind by taking a journey to a peaceful, calming place or situation.
What is visualization?
All stress is out of your control.
What is false?
These are psychological strategies that are unconsciously used to protect a person from anxiety provoking thoughts or feelings.
What are defense mechanisms?
How do you make seven an even number?
What is take out the S?
This type of coping skill can increase your energy, mood, focus, self-esteem and releases feel good endorphins into your brain. It also decreases your stress and depression.
What is exercising?
I get reminders that make me want to use but I decide to stay away. What am I doing?
What is avoiding triggers?
Anger is linked to poor health conditions.
What is FALSE?
The unconscious effort to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious.
What is repression?
This type of coping skill provides an opportunity to have fun, relax, or socialize with peers.
What is doing leisure activities?
The two main types of coping skills.
What is problem-based coping and emotion-based coping?
Getting angry leaves you feeling out of control.
What is true?
A form of retreat that enables a person to psychologically go back in time to a period when the person felt safe.
What is regression?
What did the math book say to the other math book?
What is "boy do I have problems?"