Coping Skills
A relaxation technique performed by purposefully taking slow, deep breaths. When practiced regularly, this provides immediate and long-term relief from stress and anxiety.
What is deep breathing?
A time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger.
What is a crisis?
These are questions that can't be answered with a yes or no.
What are open-ended questions?
This is the rarest color of M&Ms.
What is brown?
Avoid the sting as you tell us that un'ape is this insect.
What is a bee?
Actions we take consciously or unconsciously to deal with stress, problems, or uncomfortable emotions.
What are coping strategies/skills?
A short-term solution that helps you bear the pain better or bring your emotions down so you can think more clearly.
What is distress tolerance skills?
When you summarize the most important points and refrain from giving your opinion.
What is reflection?
Describes what we do when we push away thoughts, emotions, sensations that are uncomfortable.
What is avoidance?
If you are called un asino, your either a fool or this animal?
What is a donkey?
Examples of this include: drug/alcohol use, overeating, procrastination, sleeping too much or too little, isolating, self-injury, and aggression.
What are negative coping skills?
A tool to help self-soothe by using your 5 senses. It is typically used when having an anxiety or panic attack.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique?
When done poorly, this can lead to misunderstandings, hurt feelings, loss of connection to another person, and a lack of trust.
What is (poor) listening?
In a BINGO game, this number is represented by the phrase "two little ducks."
What is 22?
That's the scariest ragno, one of these, I've ever seen! Don't tell Signorina Moffet.
What is a spider?
A stimulus such as a person, place, situation, or thing that contributes to an unwanted emotional or behavioral response.
What is a trigger?
This tool helps you decide between 2 courses of action.
What are pros and cons list?
70-93% of communication is this.
What is non-verbal?
The practice of purposefully bringing one's attention to the present-moment experience without judgment.
What is mindfulness?
Un cane is this; ready for walkies.
What is a dog?
This response is one of the tools your body uses to protect you from danger. When you feel threatened, this response is automatically triggered and several physiological changes occur (e.g. adrenaline rush, body temperature, heart rate, etc.)
What is the fight or flight response?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
This DBT acronym outlines strategies for distracting oneself from distressful emotions.
What is ACCEPTS?
Understanding the speaker's point-of-view, even when you don't agree, is an example of having this kind of mind?
What is an open mind?
What was the first toy to be advertised on television?
What is Mr. Potato Head?
It really gets me that una capra is one of these farm animals.
What is a goat?