Coping Skills
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?
What are these triggers?
___, ___, and ____.
What are People, Places and Things.?
When is practicing self care important?
What is Everyday?
True or False: Talking to others is a healthy coping skill?
What is TRUE?
Talking to others allows us to share our emotions and problems so that we do not have to go through them alone.
What is never hungry during Thanksgiving?
What is A Stuffed Turkey?
Name an example of a coping skill.
What is: Talking, walking away, coloring, listening to music, deep breathing, going to meetings, etc.?
What is a Trigger?
What is any stimuli that might cause a person to be remembered of a time of using substances?
What does HALT stand for?
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely and Tired?
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, substance use, running from problems, self harm, etc.)
What word is always pronounced wrong?
What is Wrong?
Which coping skill involves expressing one's thoughts and emotions through writing?
What is Journaling?
What are some examples of triggers?
What is Triggers are feelings, experiences, people, places, things, and sensory that you associate with your drinking or drug use? (Identify personal triggers!)
What is an example of a distraction coping skill?
What is: Watching tv, movies, reading, drawing, knitting, games, listening to music, etc.?
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!
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
What is The Future?
Centering and grounding yourself in the moment is what type of coping skill?
What is Mindfulness?
What are the three main types of triggers?
What is Internal, External, and Sensory?
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.
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 turns everything around but does not move?
What is a Mirror?
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?
What are Thought-Stopping Techniques?
Why is it helpful to identify what your triggers are?
What is if you know what your triggers are, you can be more prepared to handle them?
How are coping skills helpful?
What is: Builds confidence, manages emotions, helps us tackle challenges, etc.?
True or False: Healthy coping skills are used to avoid problems in our lives?
What is FALSE? Coping skills help us work through problems in a healthy way.
Healthy coping skills help us work through our problems and emotions. We will never be able to avoid all problems!
I start with M, end with X, and I have any number of letters in me. What am I?
What is a Mailbox?