Name three healthy coping skills
Journaling, Listening to music, Reflecting, Mindfulness, Distraction, Playing games, Talking with family or friends...
Name two unhealthy coping skills
Isolating, getting angry, over eating, over sleeping, hurting yourself or others, substance use...
Talking to others about your problems is an unhealthy coping skill.
FALSE.
Talking to others can help us work through our problems and emotions and can make us feel supported.
Name one place where you feel calm and safe.
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Name 3 things you are grateful for today
1, 2, 3
What is your favorite coping skill?
Up to you!
What happens when we do not use our coping skills?
Bottling things up and not using coping skills can result in us getting angry, hurting our relationship with others, causing problems, or hurting ourselves.
Coping skills is just deep breathing.
FALSE.
Coping skills are whatever you want it to be! Whatever can calm us down, make us happy, and re-center our minds and bodies.
Do the Rainbow coping skill or 5 senses coping skill
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet
5 see, 4 hear, 3 feel, 2 smell, 1 taste
Name 3 of your strengths
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Looking at our strengths can help us focus on them, and help them to grow even stronger.
Your friend said something really mean to you at school. You just want to yell at them and scream! What can you do instead?
Healthy skills are skills that provide comfort and often help the feeling or situation. Whereas an unhealthy coping skill would make things worse and could affect others.
I only need to use coping skills when I am angry.
FALSE.
Coping skills can be used at anytime. Sad, mad, anxious, worried, even happy. It can help us combat feelings that may come up later if we are able to have that time to relax and reset.
You had a really bad day at school and you still have homework to do when you get home, how do you handle it?
(healthy coping skills)
Having to continue a tough day is not easy. Take a break, do something you enjoy, give yourself a time limit and then return to the hard stuff.
Finish this sentence:
I feel ____ because ____.
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Name a coping skill that you don't use that you would like to try
Unhealthy coping skill.
Although it is totally fine to have sad days, isolation and lack of movement can make you feel even worse. Do your best to get up and try again. Or start new the next day.
The same coping skills work for everyone.
FALSE.
Deep breathing sometimes may feel silly, but it really does slow your heart rate down and helps your body become more relaxed by allowing for more oxygen.
Name one way you have grown this year.
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Can you name 2 coping skills that was not said yet?
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Stress can affect your mental health AND physical health
TRUE.
Stress can cause your immune system to weaken and can cause you to get sick more easily.
What is something in your life that is stressful? Think of one way we can combat that stress.
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DOUBLE POINTS
Do you like therapy? and why?
What's one topic you would like to talk about or learn about that we have not talked about yet in therapy?