Janine Halloran

Coping Skills for Kids Activity Books Janine Halloran

Throughout your day or week, you will find yourself in different places, like school, home, basketball practice, the library, dance rehearsal, etc. You may also notice that you have lots of feelings when you're in these different places. When you're feeling worried, anxious, or upset, it's good to have things to do that help you relax and de-stress. These things to do are calledcoping skills. You may use different coping skills that work best for each of the places you go. The kinds of coping skills in this activity book are relaxing, like: *deep breathing*imagining awesome stuff*stopping and focusingAt the end of the book, there's a space to keep track of coping skills you've tried, and whether or not you liked them. If you didn't, that's okay! You can move on and try another skill instead. You can always come back to skills you didn't care for the first time and try them again later