Coping Skills
refers to conscious or unconscious strategies used to reduce unpleasant emotions.
What is coping?
Sometimes a melody is all you need to improve your moods and relax your mind.
What is music?
This is the person clients can reach out to if they need food, clothing, things for school or other needs in the community.
What is a service coordinator?
Personal care, which includes dressing, grooming and showering.
What is hygiene?
commonly defined as the transmission of information. Always involves two or more people, allows you to understand and be understood by others.
What is communication?
Practiced slowly. In through your nose and out of your mouth, while sometimes counting.
What is deep breathing?
A breath of fresh air is good for the soul. While this activity can help improve physical health it can be relaxing.
What is hiking/walking?
This person is in charge of the center and makes decisions based on the overall wellbeing of our clients.
What is the site manager?
Keeping things neat and in order.
What is organization?
observing what verbal and non-verbal messages are being sent, and then providing appropriate feedback for the sake of showing attentiveness to the message being presented. Paying close attention to what the other person is saying.
What is listening/ active listening?
Movement of the body, which helps physically and mentally.
What is exercise?
You've probably heard someone say, “I'm in my happy place”. Involves using mental imagery to achieve a more relaxed state of mind. Similar to daydreaming
What is guided imagery/ visualization?
The center has two. They assist client's by coaching and support in accomplishing daily living skills.
What is CSA?
This is a basic life skills that is essential. Gives us nutrition to survive. A skill used daily to help us grow and maintain strength.
What is cooking?
You can communicate a powerful message without saying a word. Our facial expressions, gestures, and body language can, and often do, say more than our words.
What is non verbal communication?
Can be used in school when feeling anxious. Keeps hands busy.
What are fidgets?
mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.
What is meditation?
This person assist clients individually or in groups by coping encouragement of client choice in planning, serving as a role model, and other interventions as needed to support client in decreasing symptoms.
What is a youth peer support specialist or YPSS?
We all make mistakes occasionally, and that's how we learn. We do this to analyze issues, brainstorm creative solutions
What is problem solving?
means that you have the ability to understand and share the emotions of others, to take on another's perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience.
What is empathy?
When getting upset it is good to use this skill. It can keep us from doing or saying things we do not mean.
Slow steady movements, deep breathing and gentle stretching of the muscles.
What is yoga?
This person assist clients in groups or individually to identify and address barriers to living independently, assist client in identifying natural and professional supports, and to provide other skills education to promote client's ability to decrease symptoms and increase the ability to live independently.
What is MHA?
considering the pros and cons of each option and thinking about how each choice aligns with your values and goals.
What is decision making?
means that you can deliver your message without hesitation, can be delivered both verbally and or nonverbal communication.
What is confidence?