Coping Skills
What is a Coping Skill?
Manage your feelings, calms you down, relaxes you
What are feelings?
Emotions that are inside and out
What are the points on the triangle?
Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors
What are the types of abuses?
Emotional Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Physical Abuse, Neglect, Domestic Violence
What is a trigger?
Something that pushes your buttons that causes an unwanted emotion
What is three negative coping skills?
yelling, hitting, kicking, throwing things, breaking things, spitting, physical or verbally fighting
What are 10 different feelings?
Examples: Mad, Sad, Hurt, Scared, Happy, Excited, Surprised, Jealous, Hungry, Thirsty, Confident, Nervous
What is a negative way to use the triangle?
What is example of the abuses?
Emotional Abuse (Making Fun), Sexual Abuse (Forcing someone sexual), Neglect (Needs not met), Physical Abuse (hitting leaving bruises), and Domestic Violence (Physical Altercations between adults)
Identify three of your triggers?
Examples: Being told No, Being Lied too, Not getting what you want
What is five positive coping skills?
Deep Breathes, Counting, Walking Away, Mindfulness, Drawing, Thinking of something positive or peaceful
What are the ways to express feelings?
What is a positive way to use the triangle?
I can do it, upset, I worked on my school paper
What is Trauma?
A stressful situation or event such as abuse, car accident, loss, etc.
What are boundaries?
When you say "No", put a bubble around you, when you let someone know what they can or cant say or do to you
Share an example of using positive coping skills in a stressful situation and show the group a positive coping skills
Example: When a sibling takes a toy and you take a deep breathe and tell an adult
Share an example of a time you identify and expressed your feelings to someone and use one of the ways to share with the group how you feel now
Example: I told a friend they hurt my feelings when they made fun of my shoes
I am feeling______
Role play a time using the triangle in a negative and then positive way.
Bring on your acting skills
What is three ways to cope with trauma?
Talking to someone, writing, drawing
What is safety? How do you know when you're safe?
When you feel secure and don't feel like your going to get hurt
When you around others that you trust or in a place you feel safe