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What is another word for a relaxation skill?
Coping skill
What is a coping skill known to help with anger
PMR, meditation, yoga, karate, and other forms of exercise.
Where are you at currently in the PRACTICE acronym.
R- Relaxation Skills
What is the idea behind grounding skills?
Because grounding skills were invented to help with dissociation, it can trick our brain into recognizing we are connected to our body.
What is the purpose of a relaxation skill
It is something someone uses to help cope with their stressors
What is a skill known to help with dissociation?
grounding skills, using your senses.
What does the PRACTICE acronym stand for?
Psychoeducation, Relaxation Skills, Affective Regulation, Cognitive Coping, Trauma Narrative, In-vivo, Conjoint, Expanding Safety and Future Development.
Complete a breathing skill
Show us the skill.
True or false:
All coping skills are healthy
False
What is a skill known to help with anxiety?
Breathing, visualization, creative writing.
When should you do a coping skill?
The moment you recognize you are moving out of your baseline emotion.
Complete PMR skill.
Practice.
Provide some examples of unhealthy coping skills
Using drugs or alcohol, engaging in self harm, over or under eating, over or under sleeping, self isolation, avoidance.
What is a skill known to help with saddness?
Meditation, mindfulness, gratitude, breathing, exercise, writing.
What is the idea behind PMR?
Purposely tightening your muscles and releasing your muscles can trick your brain into not staying tight/tense.
Complete 54321 skill
Practice
Provide examples of healthy coping skills
exercise, PMR, breathing skills, counting to 10, grounding skills, journaling, creative expression/art, talking about it with other people.
What does TFCBT stand for?
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
What is the idea behind breathing skills?
When having intense emotions, it can make our breath change. By doing a breathing skill, it tricks our brain into breathing normally again which can decrease the intensity of our emotions.
Where in the PRACTICE acronym are we moving to next?
A for Affective Regulation.