Coping Skills
Writing down how you feel in a notebook or diary.
What is journaling.
Name three healthy coping skills
Listening to music, journaling, taking a walk, meditating, exercising, reading, talking to a friend or trusted adult, playing a game, watching a movie, yoga
Usually a secondary emotion, but is often the immediate response to a trigger
What is anger
Communication style that is harsh, often loud and can be hurtful to another.
What is aggressive
True or False:
A coping skill is something that you have to learn.
False. Many coping skills are automatic or come naturally.
A natural way to get in shape and improve your mood
What is exercise
Tools you may learn in therapy to help you manage triggers.
What are coping skills
Worry about the future, a specific event, or just that something bad will happen
What is anxiety
Communicating without words
What is nonverbal
True or False:
All stress is out of your control
False. Often we focus more on our stressors, causing us to increase our level of stress
Daily Double: Name two benefits of using coping skills
Managing emotions/ decreasing symptoms of anxiety/depression/ decreasing negative consequences from behaviors/ self-regulation/ feeling better/ healthy expression
Changes in our _______ produce changes in our ________
What are thoughts/ actions
What is happy
Communication style that considers another's thoughts and feelings as equally important as your own.
What is assertive
True or False:
Video games can be used as coping skills.
True. Often video games are great distracting tools and can help relieve stress and aggression.
Taking your mind off of the problem or thinking of something else
What is distraction
Thoughts and feelings control our _______
What are behaviors
Something that can quickly cause a person's mood to shift.
What is a trigger
Communication style where one considers the thoughts and feelings of others as more important than their own.
What is passive
True or False:
Your reaction to triggers only affect you
False. Our reactions, whether healthy or unhealthy, will affect those around us.
Deep breathing and mental focus
What is meditation
Negative patterns of thinking that become beliefs
What are thinking errors or cognitive distortions
Name one of the changes the body experiences during fight, flight or freeze?
Increased heart rate, heavier breathing, blood thickens, senses sharpen, adrenaline kicks in, muscles tense
Statements expressing how you feel, rather than what someone has done to you
What are I-statements
True or False:
You can control the actions of those around you.
False. The only person you have control over is yourself.