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Coping Skills Game for Group Counseling

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Can I Cope This Way? cover: card game for matching coping skills to situations, shown with a fight card and a calm card
Introduce the game before a small-group session
Quick tips: game instructions, 30 scenario cards and 60 coping skill cards included; laminate and play in small groups
Prep checklist before printing and laminating
Game rules: hand sizes for 2, 3 or 4+ players, matching a coping skill to a read-aloud situation card, and how to win
Read aloud to the group before the first round
Situation cards on how you cope: putting library books away, being bumped in gym, and friends choosing someone else
Print and cut for the scenario deck
Situation cards asking for a bad way to cope: being moved for talking, a gym too loud to think, and stolen headphones
Prompts for discussing unhelpful reactions
Situation cards on disappointment: teacher calls on someone else, rain cancels recess, and a friend ends the friendship
Scenarios for talking through letdowns
Frustration situation cards: blamed for something you didn't do, losing a game, and classwork too hard to understand
Frustration triggers for group discussion
Trust and stress situation cards: gossip behind your back, too much homework, and a friend who lied to you
Friendship and workload scenarios for the deck
Bad-way-to-cope cards: no thanks for helping a friend, anxiety at a crowded pep rally, and a silent new student
Use to practise spotting poor choices
School pressure situation cards: reading aloud unknown words, parents yelling over a bad grade, and a disliked subject
Academic stress prompts to round out the deck
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Have students struggling with using appropriate calming strategies with various things in their day? Who hasn't. This card game is perfect to help those kids idetify coping skills for triggers and the Coping Skills Card Game is the perfect game for group lessons! This card game identifies different situations that are common triggers for our students. Students are then given a hand of cards with different coping skills that they can choose from for how to calm down from that specific situation.

The best part about this game is the fact that the coping skills cards include positive and negative ways of coping, so students can help to decide the wrong coping skills, and the more appropriate calming strategies.

Ideas for Use:

⭐ Push-In Lessons

⭐Group Lessons

⭐For the student who struggles identifying good and bad calming strategies

⭐For the student who struggles identifying any calming strategies

⭐As a review tool for kids who have struggled with anger in the past.

When students struggle in their academic life with using calming strategies in the moment, this game can be a great tool!

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