Coping Strategies
Screaming into a pillow is an example of this type of coping skill.
What is emotion release?
To acknowledge the validity in what someone else is saying or feeling.
What is validation?
This conflict management style is used when two people come up with a solution that will satisfy them both.
Name one thing that interferes with studying.
Two common mental health diagnoses.
What are depression and anxiety?
Define distraction.
What is "something that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else."
These are always valid because they represent a person's experience.
What are emotions?
Harmonizing works to do what to relationships?
What is maintain?
What is procrastinate?
This helps determine how people handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.
What is mental health?
This is defined as "bringing one's focus to what is happening with them physically, either in their body or in their surroundings, instead of being trapped in the thoughts in their mind."
What is grounding?
Name one reason why people validate others.
What is demonstrates listening and understanding, shows we aren't judging, improves relationships, takes away pressure to prove who's right, decreases anger, and avoids hurting others?
Name one of the five conflict management styles.
What is avoiding, competing, collaborating, harmonizing, or compromising.
Name two important things to build into your schedule.
What is work time, self care time, movement time, and outdoor time?
This can make someone fee like there’s something physically wrong with them that they can’t pinpoint.
What is depression?
Give an example of self care/self love.
What is buying something, taking care with your appearance, painting nails, eating something you really like, spending time with a friend, etc.?
Turning up the heat when someone says it’s cold is an example of this.
What is functional validation?
Leaving something unaddressed is a con of what conflict management style.
What is avoiding?
Name an example of a mnemonic device.
Name three symptoms of depression.
What is isolation, hopelessness, sadness, increased sleeping, lack of appetite, irritability, no motivation, not enjoying things, previously enjoyed.
Name two categories of coping skills.
What are best self, distraction, getting groundedness, self care, emotional release, thought challenge?
This is important to be open to when you are reflecting someone's words back to them.
What is correction?
This conflict management style has the mentality of "my way or the highway".
What is competing?
Name 5 organizational skills.
What is having a schedule, a designated space to work, using a calendar/planner, prepare for the day ahead (to-do list), prioritize things, avoid time wasters, and limit distractions?
Define dissociation.
What is feeling numb, floaty, or disconnected?