Coping Skills
What is a coping skill?
Something we can do to help us feel better.
Coping Skills are not helpful to me.
FALSE
Coping skills help me work through problems and feel better.
What happens when we use healthy or helpful coping skills?
We feel better. Problems may be solved. We can be flexible.
How do you feel when the class you want to be in is full?
Sad, mad, upset, frustrated,
You buy me to eat, but you never eat me? What am I?
A fork.
What are "healthy coping skills?"
Coping skills that are not harmful to you or others. Coping skills that help us feel better.
Coping skills can keep you and others safe.
TRUE
What can you do when you don't get the art class that you want to do?
A helpful or healthy coping skill.
Take a deep breath.
Learn or try something new or different!!
How do you feel when your art doesn't look like you want it to look?
Angry/Upset
What has many rings but no fingers?
A phone!
Describe "unhealthy coping skills."
Coping skills that are harmful to you or others, and/or keep you from feeling better.
Every coping skill is healthy or helps us.
FALSE
Some ways we learn to cope are not healthy or helpful (e.g., like fighting or destroying property)
What can you do when the weather changes?
Talk to others about how we can't change the weather.
Do something that makes you happy.
Find ways to accept or cope with events that might change due to the weather.frustrated, worried, anxious,
I have a head and a tail, but no body. What am I?
A coin.
Name 2 healthy coping skills you can use here at Open Hearts.
Deep breathing
Talk to staff member
Take a Walk with staff
Draw or Journal
relax in the sensory room
listen to music
dance, sing
Coping skills are something everyone is born knowing how to do.
FALSE
Coping skills are learned throughout our lives.
What coping skills can you use when you have to work with another staff or artist that you weren't expecting?
Talk about your feelings and tak
How might you feel if a boundless trip has to be canceled due to the weather?
Mad, upset, sad...
What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge!
Name 2 unhealthy coping skills
destroying property- breaking or tearing things
hurting ourselves
hurting others
Yelling
Saying mean things to others
Throwing things
Being unsafe
I don't need to use coping skills.
What coping skills can make you feel better when you are upset with another artist?
Talk to staff
Take a break
...
How do you feel when staff has to tell you, no?
Not in control, hurt, mad
I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can't touch me or catch me? What am I ?
Your shadow!