Coping Skills
Define coping skills
Coping refers to conscious strategies used to reduce unpleasant emotions. Coping strategies can be cognitions or behaviors and can be individual or social. To cope is to deal with and overcome struggles and difficulties in life. It is a way for people to maintain their mental and emotional well-being.
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old, what am I?
A candle.
What are the five or "external" senses?
Visual-sight, Auditory-hearing, Olfactory-smell, Gustatory-taste, Tactile-touch
Define community resources
Community resource means a source of information, service or expertise that is available within the community, including respite care services, health and mental health services and other social services.
What do you call an angry carrot?
A steamed veggie.
Define "Trigger"
A stimulus that elicits a reaction. "trigger" is often used to mean something that brings on or worsens symptoms. This often happens to people with a history of trauma or who are recovering from mental illness, self-harm, addiction, and/or eating disorders.
Imagine you’re in a room that is filling with water.
There are no windows or doors.
How do you get out?
Stop imagining.
This allows us to take in, sort out, and connect information from our bodies and the world around us
Sensory processing
What is the Suicide and Crisis hotline
988
What’s red and bad for your teeth?
A brick.
How can creating artwork be used as a coping skill?
Art can be used as a way to express your emotions/feelings.
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence
Our dominant sense; 80% of sensory information is this.
vision/visual?
_______ _______ is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Where does a sink go dancing?
The Dish-co
The act of distancing yourself from others / the community is known as what?
Isolation
A man was walking in the rain. He was in the middle of nowhere. He had nothing and nowhere to hide. He came home all wet, but not a single hair on his head was wet. Why is that?
The man was bald
This sensory system is responsible for balance, postural control, muscle tone, and bilateral coordination.
Vestibular system
What are two Mainecare covered transportation options to get to appointments in the Penobscot area?
Modivcare, formerly LogistiCare
and Penquis CAP
Why can’t a toe be 12 inches long?
Then it’d be a foot
_______ _________ is the practice of identifying and challenging any negative or distorted thoughts.
Cognitive reframing
A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?
The river was frozen.
A Sensory Modulation Disorder: Examples of this are being sensitive to loud noises, bright lights, and touching certain textures.
Sensory over-responsivity
WE ARE A DIVERSE AND SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY, WORKING SIDE BY SIDE, CREATING OPPORTUNITIES TO ACHIEVE OUR GOALS IN EDUCATION, WELLNESS AND EMPLOYMENT.
Is what community resources mission statement?
UNLIMITED SOLUTIONS CLUBHOUSE
Why do French people eat snails?
They don’t like fast food