Teenage Brain
The organ that controls your thoughts, feelings, memory, and movement.
What is the brain?
True or False: Our emotions are not connected to our thoughts.
What is False?
The power of thought loop begins with a:
Thought
State a coping skill that will cool your anger.
What are deep breaths, counting, reframing thoughts, drawing, taking a walk.
List 2 stressors that can affect teenagers:
What are school work, grades, relationships, divorce/separation of parents, younger siblings, peer pressure, etc.
The person who is in control of their emotions.
What is myself?
True or False: it's only possible to experience one emotion at a time.
What is False
State a part of the thought loop:
A thought that you repeat to yourself in different situations.
Our anger is often fueled by:
Negative thoughts or negative emotions, and current and past experiences.
True or False: When you're constantly at an 8-10, typical coping skills do not work.
False
The area of the brain responsible for rational decision making, problem-solving, organization, planning, impulse control, and regulating emotions.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
Name a physical response to anger or anxiety.
What are sweating, feeling hot, rapid breathing.
Negative thoughts can be changed by:
Counter or Reframing thoughts.
State when you realize you are in an angry state.
Heavy breathing, sweating palms, hot head, balled up fist, blurred vision, etc.
What is the purpose of the stress response (flight or fight response).
For survival/to stay safe or keep us safe.
The area of the brain responsible for enacting your flight or fight response and emotions?
What is Amygdala?
Identify this mindfulness strategy: a situation happens where you lose control, afterward you write down what you were feeling and the actions you took during that time.
What is self-reflection.
Jim says hi to Mark, but Mark doesn't say hi back. Jim thinks Mark is mad at him but doesn't have any evidence other than Mark not saying hi back. Use a counter thought to refute the claim.
Jim could think, well Mark usually says hi to me, maybe he didn't hear me.
True or False: It is bad to feel mad or angry?
One of the biggest sources of stress: (one of yours)
Change, school, parents, siblings, peers, other (specify)
A term that describes the amygdala separating from the prefrontal cortex, this is when you are under extreme emotional distress and think impulsively rather than rationally.
survival mode, Flip Your Lid
You have this when you understand the feelings or situation of another person or people.
What is Empathy.
Reframe the thought: Linda ordered fries and a big mac from McDonalds, Linda receives her order but realizes her fries are not in her bag. Linda is angry and wants to yell at the incompetent teenagers working the drive through.
Linda could think about the fact that maybe it was the first day the teenager was working. Or other.
What are somethings that provokes you to anger?
open response
State a coping skill that can be used in emergencies (when you're in a constant state of stress and other skills are not working)
What is eating sour candy, putting your face in water, counting to 10, deep breathing techniques