Coping Skills
The methods a person uses to deal with stressful situations.
What is a coping skill?
Looking at nature is an example of using this sense
What is vision?
This 3 letter acronym stands for "Activites of Daily Living"
What is ADL?
What is major depressive disorder (MDD)?
Our emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
What is mental health?
Benefits of this coping skill include improving your memory and brain function, protecting against many chronic diseases, improving heart health, improving your quality of sleep, and reducing feelings of anxiety and depression.
What is exercise?
A good way to use my sense of smell as a coping skill
What are essential oils?
The American Dental Association recommends brushing your teeth this many times a day
What is 2?
Severe, ongoing anxiety that interferes with daily activities.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
A social construct. Involves the way in which an individual identifies and can be on a broad spectrum.
What is gender?
The practice of paying attention to the present moment with an accepting, nonjudgmental disposition.
What is meditation?
This sensory strategy uses extra weight which mimics a therapeutic technique called deep pressure stimulation or pressure therapy. It may aid in helping you sleep better.
What is a weighted blanket?
According to the The American Academy of Sleep Medicine, teenagers (age 13-18) should be getting this much sleep a night
What is 8-10 hours?
A disorder associated with episodes of mood swings ranging from depressive lows to manic highs
This service provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the United States
What is the national suicide prevention hotline?
1-800-273-8255
The practice of tensing, or tightening, one muscle group at a time followed by a relaxation phase with release of the tension. Used to control stress and anxiety
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
a way to use movement to help concentrate; sometimes it helps us with nervous energy
What is fidgeting?
This ADL enables the cells in our bodies to perform their necessary functions.
What is eating?
May result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that impairs daily functioning.
What is schizophrenia?
Therapy based on engagement in meaningful activities of daily life (such as self-care skills, education, work, or social interaction) especially to enable or encourage participation in such activities despite impairments or limitations in physical or mental functioning
What is occupational therapy?
Examples include pretzel, rainbow, 5 finger, and box
What is deep breathing?
This sense is also called "gustatory"
What is taste?
what IADL stands for
What is Instrumental Activity of Daily Living?
A state in which a person experiences delusions and/or hallucinations
What is psychosis?
A sensory system that is responsible for providing our brain with information about motion, head position, and spatial orientation; it also is involved with motor functions that allow us to keep our balance, stabilize our head and body during movement, and maintain posture.
What is the vestibular system?