True or false, Avoidance behaviors can be a symptom of PTSD
True
True or false, Avoidance behaviors give us full control?
False, it gives you a false sense of control
Used to escape or distract ourselves from difficult thoughts and feelings
Avoidance behavior
Name 3 avoidance behaviors
Escapism, daydreaming, isolation, avoiding eye contact, burying emotions, leaving classes early
When you avoid specific people or places
Situational avoidance
Process in which you avoid thinking about something
Cognitive avoidance
What type of avoidance is associated with checking, cleaning, and using "good luck" charms
Protective avoidance
Name 2 healthy, and 2 unhealthy coping skills
Name 2 healthy, and 2 unhealthy coping skills
What makes a coping skill unhealthy?
When it becomes unsafe, unhelpful, or harmful to yourself or others.
Limiting your physical response to stress and anxiety is what type of avoidance?
Somatic
Using preferrable emotions to conceal our experience is called..
Substitution avoidance
Name 3 ways to reduce avoidance behaviors.
Journaling, Teaching stress management techniques, encourage growth mindset, build flexibility and tolerance, develop coping skills.