Coping Skills
This coping skill involves expressing three good things in your day or life.
What is gratitude?
This condition involves alternating periods of elevated mood and depression.
What is bipolar disorder?
This type of support involves talking with a trained professional about thoughts, feelings, and life challenges.
What is therapy?
This is the ability to say what you need in a respectful way.
What is assertiveness?
In this Pixar movie, emotions like Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust live inside a young girl’s mind.
What is Inside Out?
Saying kind, encouraging phrases to yourself is known as this.
What are affirmations?
This seasonal mood disorder typically occurs during winter months.
What is seasonal affective disorder (SAD)?
This supportive relationship can include friends, family, mentors, or trusted adults who listen and encourage.
What is a support system?
This word describes limits you set to protect your well‑being.
What are boundaries?
This film starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence follows two people coping with mental health struggles who bond through dance.
What is Silver Linings Playbook?
This sensory technique involves naming 5 things you see, 4 you can touch, 3 you hear, 2 you smell, and 1 you taste.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 technique?
This condition is characterized by restrictive food intake, intense fear of gaining weight, and a distorted perception of body and weight.
What is anorexia nervosa?
This is a tool that focuses on patient goals and progress.
What is a treatment plan?
This skill involves listening to understand, not just to respond.
What is active listening?
This psychological thriller stars Natalie Portman as a ballerina experiencing intense pressure and mental distress.
What is Black Swan?
This technique involves imagining a safe, calm, and happy place to reduce stress.
What is visualization or guided imagery?
This condition is characterized by the presence of obsessions and/or compulsions, and causes significant distress and impairs daily functioning.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
This approach focuses on building strengths, resilience, and positive emotions rather than only reducing symptoms.
What is positive psychology?
A relationship where both people feel safe, respected, and valued is described as this.
What is a healthy relationship?
This movie starring Robin Williams tells the story of a therapist helping a troubled math genius work through trauma and emotional barriers.
What is Good Will Hunting?
Tensing and then releasing different muscle groups to lower physical tension.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
This condition is a mix of mild depression with mild mania, chronic and long-term.
What is cyclothymic disorder?
Type of therapy that focuses solely on the person's conscious self-perceptions.
What is humanistic therapy?
This term describes solving a disagreement in a calm, respectful way.
What is conflict resolution?
This film starring Russell Crowe portrays a brilliant mathematician living with schizophrenia.
What is A Beautiful Mind?