Teaches Kids Nine Essential Skills to Deal with Real-Life Crisis
Parents and Professionals – Prevent Overwhelm, Strengthen Resilience, and Increase Emotional Health in Children with This Highly Acclaimed Workbook!
This workbook is part of The Counselor’s Activity Books Series which includes Lisa Schab’s Anger Solution Workbook, You & Me Workbook and more!
The concepts in this effective workbook are also available as a therapeutic game!
As the depression and anxiety rates continue to rise in our youth population so does the need for teaching emotional coping skills and life skills. While today’s kids are highly adept at downloading apps, traversing phones and tablets, and programming iPods, they are sorely lacking in the tools that keep them feeling safe, hopeful, and confident in their ability to handle both the everyday ups and downs of life and bigger traumas when they strike.
Teaching coping skills at an early age is one of the best methods we have for preventing emotional dysfunction and hopelessness in our children. Kids who have a back-pocket knowledge of how to handle disappointment, express feelings safely, and bolster themselves in the face of discomfort, frustration and pain are kids who are less likely to develop alcohol, drug, food, or process addictions, or to feel the need to end their own lives.
The Coping Skills Workbook offers 9 basic but powerful skills that can be used in nearly every life situation. They are skills that once learned can be practiced, strengthened, and used effectively over the course of a lifetime:
- Deal with Your Feelings
- Adjust Your Attitude
- Take One Step at a Time
- Accept Imperfection
- Plan Ahead
- Give Yourself a Relaxation Break
- Discover Your Choices
- Take Care of Yourself
- Ask for Help
All skill concepts are operationalized with 5 – 10 fictional stories that allow readers to help other children through their challenges by using that chapter’s coping skill.
Following this practice comes a chance for the reader to personalize the skill by answering prompts about how to use the skill in their own current life situations.
