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Coping Skills
Healthy vs. Unhealthy
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What do we call strategies to help us feel better?


Hint: some of us have goals about them.

Coping skills
100
Healthy or unhealthy coping skill: yelling at your peer because you feel anxious about going into the community.
Unhealthy! It is never okay make other people deal with your anxiety instead of processing it or dealing with it.
100
What do we drink that can make us feel better when we are anxious or sad?
Water
200
True or false: using coping skills can help you get through the day.
True! Coping skills can be really helpful.
200
Unhealthy or healthy: seeing a therapist to process your feelings. 
Healthy! If you don’t process your feelings, the people closest to you will have to feel them for you. 
300
True or false: everyone needs healthy coping skills.
True! Everyone is human, which means that they sometimes get upset and need to deal with it.
300
Unhealthy or healthy: you tell staff that you need to take space from the group.
Healthy! Advocating for what you need is such a great way to take care of yourself.
400
True or false: staff can remind you to use your coping skills.
True!
400
Unhealthy or healthy: you splash water on your face in the bathroom and pat it dry with a paper towel before returning to the main program area. 
Healthy! Splashing water on your face can be a really helpful way to calm yourself down.
500
True or false: coping skills are good for you!
True!
500
Healthy or unhealthy: writing in a journal or drawing a picture
Healthy! Writing down your thoughts and feelings or expressing them in a picture can help you process your emotions.