SEL Mental Health Check

Coping with stress is an attempt to

• eliminate all stressors from one's life.

• surrender to the effects that stressors have on one's life.

• master, control, reduce, and tolerate the stressors in one's life.

• increase the number of stressors in one's life.

Your friend wants you to take some money from your big sister’s money box when she is not home to ask. It is best to say to your friend:

• No, I don’t want to do that.

• I need to think about it.

• If you want to, you can.

• Do you think I will get in trouble?

This is a view you have of yourself

• self-concept

• personality

• self-esteem

• resilience

Select the best example of being assertive when someone cuts in front of you in line:

• Hey, get out of my way!

• I think I was in front of you.

• Who do you think you are, the king of the world?

• It is not ok to cut, the end of the line is back there.

Select the first two things you should do to begin to calm down:

• Stop, name your feeling

• Run

• Cry

• Lie down

Today I’m feeling...

• Great

• Ok

• Blah

• Need to talk to someone

You are playing a game at recess. You notice that someone on the other team is cheating. You are so angry! What can you NOT do to calm down?

• Call the kid a cheater so everyone hears

• Belly breathing

• Count to 10

• Tell yourself “he may not know the rules of the game”.

The sorrow caused by the loss of a loved one

• grief

• coping

• stressor

• anxiety