Sensory coping skills
What are Sensory Coping Skills?
Coping Skills that involve using your five senses.
Every coping skill is healthy.
False
Your roommate snores and it keeps you up at night.
Earplugs
Name two healthy coping skills
journaling, listening to music, taking a walk, video games, meditation, talking to someone, writing, drawing, listening to music, etc.
A calming smell
Lavendar
What is an example of a sensory coping skill that uses smell?
perfume, lavender
True or False: Coping skills are something everyone is born knowing how to do?
False: Coping skills are learned throughout our lives
You cannot watch what you want to on the TV.
Color/draw, take a walk, talk to staff, etc.
What are examples of unhealthy coping skills?
Fighting, punching a wall, Throwing things
at home you might use these to help make your room fill with a relaxing scent
candle or incense
What are the 5 senses ?
See, Touch, Taste, Smell, Hear
True or False: A coping skill that is helpful for you might not be helpful for someone else?
True
You are ready to leave group, but you have to wait for unit staff to come get you
Deep breathing, visualization, grounding techniques
How do unhealthy coping skills affect us?
Impact relationships, make us feel worse, get in trouble
Name three sounds that can be alerting.
Loud music, talking to a friend
What is a sensory coping skill that uses sight
reading a book, watching clouds move, Snowglobe, happy pictures of family, nature, clouds, stars.
Healthy coping skills are used to avoid problems in our lives?
False. Coping skills help us work through problems in a healthy way.
Healthy coping skills help us work through our problems and emotions. We will never be able to avoid all problems!
No one came to visit during visitation
Music, walking, journal, talking to others about your feelings.
What is one benefit of using healthy coping skills?
helps you feel more relaxed, having a clear mind, creating healthy relationships, positive decision making, being in control etc.
What sense are you using when you pet a therapy dog?
Touch
What is the 6th and 7th sense?
Proprioception (pressure)
Vestibular (movement)
The word olfactory involves your hearing sense.
False-smell
The unit is getting too loud
Find a quiet place, go to your room, use earplugs
When does a healthy coping skill become unhealthy?
When it is done excessively and in an unhealthy way.
This is a loud sound given off by nature. It can be alarming to a lot of people and is often extremely loud when there are bad weather conditions
Thunder