Coping Skills
This skill is taught during TARGET to help you learn how to mentally focus.
SOS
One might feel this feeling when an adult tells you no.
Angry
One might experience this level of stress after moving to another city with their family.
Moderate
What was SpongeBob trying to find in his filing center?
Where does your thinking center get information from in times of stress?
This coping skill might involve writing down what you're thinking and how you're feeling onto paper.
Journaling
What are different types of triggers that a person can experience?
People, places, smells, noises, dates of the year, time of day, rooms, pictures, object, etc.
One might experience this level of stress after finding out they have a quiz in school the following day.
Normal
The Filing center stores information from ________ experiences to help you in the present.
Past
The Thinking Center sends messages to this part of the brain during a stressful event.
Alarm
This coping skill involves slowly taking air in and out of our lungs.
Deep Breathing
When you are triggered by something a friend says or does, whose responsibility is it to fix it?
Yours
Where does our Alarm send signals to?
Prefrontal Cortex/Hippocampus/Brain
The Filing Center sends messages to this part of the brain during stressful events.
Thinking Center
The Thinking center is located in which part of our brains?
Prefrontal Cortex
This coping skill involves sitting still for an extended period of time, focusing on your breathing and clearing your mind.
Meditation
What are some things you might feel in your body that tell you that you might be in survival mode?
Hot or red face, rapid heart beat, loss of hearing, clench fists, tight shoulders, upset stomach, clenching the jaw, shaking hands, short of breath/rapid breathing, racing thoughts, or feeling overwhelmed
One might experience this level of stress after losing a pet or a loved one.
Extreme
This is the scientific name for the part of the brain that holds our filing center.
Hippocampus
True or False; Coping skills will make you feel 100% better every time you use them.
False
What is the SOS?
Slow Down
Orient
Self-Check
This is the scientific name for the part of our brains that controls the ALARM.
Amygdala
We call it a "Filing Center" because...
The Thinking Center is where we make __________ and we hear our __________.
Decisions, Inner Voice