Coping skills
Name any coping skill you know
Deep breathing, rainbow breathing, safe/calm place, drawing, coloring, body squeezing activity, stressballs, guided imageries, listening to music
How do you feel today?
Any emotion word can be accepted.
What is a thought?
Something you say to yourself, the words that run through your mind
What is a behavior
Something you do/actions
What has hands and a face but can't hold anything or smile?
A clock
Show me any coping skills you remember learning
deep breathing, rainbow breathing, safe/calm place, drawing, coloring, guided imageries, progressive muscle relaxation, mindfulness activities.
Anxiety
What are the three angles of the CBT triangle?
Thought, feeling/emotion, behavior/action
What causes you to behave?
Thoughts and feelings.
Which letter of the alphabet has the most water in it?
C
Deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, mindfulness senses
What is the emotion that is considered a secondary emotion because there are usually other feelings underneath it?
Anger
Provide an example using the cbt triangle.
Any example with situation, thought, feeling, behavior.
Name a behavior that would follow anger?
tantrums, screaming, kicking, walking away, yelling, taking a time out, counting, deep breathing, crying, not talking
you throw a ball as hard as you can. it comes back to you without anyone touching it. How?
You throw it up
Name the type of coping skill that allows you to focus on your surroundings and on the present.
Mindfulness: meditation, 5 senses, yoga,
What are uncomfortable emotions for most people?
Sad, worried, scared, disappointed,
Name any thinking error or cognitive distortion
What does it mean to wear masks?
To hide what you are actually feeling
How many muscles does a cat have in each ear?
32
Cope: how you deal with
What does it mean to wear a mask?
To show another emotion than what you may actually be feeling.
How do you get rid of a negative thought?
Challenge it with evidence
What should we do with difficult emotions.
Use coping skills to get through them, but also know that they are okay to have.
Where is a shrimps heart?
in its head