Individual Coping Skills
How can listening to music be used a coping skill?
Listening to music can be relaxing and can help take your mind off of stressors.
How can helping another person be used as a coping skill.
Helping others can improve our mood and make us feel good about ourselves.
Instant fixes for stress exist.
FALSE
Name 3 negative coping skills.
ignoring your feelings, fighting, yelling
How can talking to a family member be used as a coping skill?
Talking allows you to express your emotions and feelings and get everything out in the open rather than bottling it up, and it also helps with building good family relationships or bonds with family members
All stress is out of your control
FALSE
Name 3 positive coping skills.
exercise, art activities, talking to a friend, sports, games, snack, .....
How can exercising be used as a coping skill?
Exercising increases your energy and mood, focus, self-esteem and releases feel good endorphins into your brain. It also decreases your stress, depression, and chance of heart attack or other health conditions
How can going for a walk with a friend be used as a coping skill?
walking good exercise, but doing this activity with a friend provides an opportunity to talk about your stressors and improve your overall mood.
Taking time for yourself each day will help you cope with stress.
TRUE
Name one stressor in your life and a positive way you can cope with that stressor.
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How can creating artwork be used as a coping skill?
Art can be used as a way to express your emotions/feelings.
How can socializing with others be used as a coping skill?
decreases bad feelings and increases good feelings because a friend cares about you
3 things that make kids feel stressed are snacktime, gametime and freetime!
FALSE
The kind of breathing that helps you calm down is...
deep breathing or belly breathing
I have holes in my top, bottom, left, right, and middle but I can still hold water. What am I?
A sponge
What is one coping skill that usually works for you if you are in the red zone?
_______________
True or False? Playing a card game with friends can be a coping skill for managing your anger or sad feelings.
TRUE
Taking a break by drinking water or eating a snack is not a coping skill.
FALSE
Yoga or stretching mediation exercises can be coping skills because
Yoga, stretching and mediation help you relax and make your body feel calm.
Why did the computer go to the doctor?
Because it had a virus.