Styles of Coping Skills
Deep Breathing, Progressive Muscle Relaxation, and Meditation are considered to be what coping style
Relaxation/Mindfulness
You cannot get rid of your emotions
Seeing all situations as all good or all bad
All or nothing thinking
What section focuses on identifying the who, what, when, where, and why
Specific
What is in front of you but cannot be seen
The future
Absorbing your mind into something else
Distraction
ALL stress is out of your control
Myth
Predicting situations will turn out negatively
Identifying that you are willing and able to achieve a goal is what section
Realistic
I shave everyday, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
letting emotions out through yelling, crying, laughing, or hitting a pillow is called
Emotional Release
Fact
Focusing on another person as the source of your negative feelings and not taking personal responsibility
Blaming
What section focuses on creating a deadline
Timely
What has many keys but cannot open a single lock?
Piano
Self-Care
Emotions can be wrong
myth
Focusing on a single negative event or detail and ignoring the positives
Mental Filtering
What does SMART stand for
specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely
I'm tall when I'm young. and I'm short when I am old
Candle
using our body senses to "get out of our head". Useful for getting through panic attacks
Grounding techniques
True
Expecting and predicting the worse outcome. Mountains out of Mole Hills
Catastrophizing
Why does goals have to be measurable
To track progress, hold us accountable, and provide us with positive feedback and feelings of accomplishment
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Footsteps