HELPFUL vs UNHELPFUL Coping Skills | Counseling Mini Lesson - CBT

Coping strategies and skills are behavioural reactions that an individual utilizes to cope, deal and adapt with difficult situations. Coping strategies come in many forms – some might be helpful, and some are unhelpful.

This resource includes 42 cards which include a variety of helpful and unhelpful coping skills which are included on individual cards. These can be discussed and used to explore and differentiate between what are healthy and helpful coping strategies verses unhelpful and unhealthy coping strategies.

These Coping Strategies (both helpful and unhelpful) include a variety of strategies which fall under the categories of diversions, social/interpersonal, cognitive, physical, spiritual and limit setting coping strategies.

This is a great resource for students with anxiety-based presentations and difficulties.
This resource includes the following:

• 2 pages with box clipart differentiating between “helpful” and “unhelpful” coping strategies
• Blank cards for additional options of writing your own helpful and unhelpful cards.
• Over 21 prewritten cards with ideas of what is “in their control” and what “is not in their control”

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