WorksheetsCoping Skills
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
I feel overwhelmed by distance learning and Google classroom
Action skill: make a schedule, create a to-do list and start with one task
Relaxation skill: take a nap and do not do your work
Distraction skill: play video games and do not do your work
Thinking tool: think about something mean someone once said to you and do not do your work
I can’t do this. I’m not good enough. I’m going to fail anyway.
Action tool: hit the desk and punch the wall
Relaxation tool: ignore your feelings and watch you tube
Thinking tool: Focus on the positive aspects of your life and pick one task that you can complete, like a journal or CNN 10
Distraction tool: ignore your feelings and eat something sweet
I have a hard time getting my work done and I am sleeping late and missing my zoom classes.
Thinking tool: think about how lazy you must be and how hard it probably would be to get help from staff
Relaxation tool: ignore your alarm and stay in bed
Distraction tool: stay up later than usual binging a show you have already seen
Action tool: create a schedule and go to bed one hour earlier tonight
Lately I have been focusing on a negative relationship from my past instead of engaging with people around me now.
Distraction tool: set up a zoom with another student and staff and do something fun with a school friend
Action tool: hit the desk and punch the wall
Thinking tool: keep thinking about that negative relationship
Relaxation tool: take a nap and skip zoom class
I'm not motivated, I don't like doing anything, I just feel lazy
Action tool: do exercises in my room and do not do my work
Distraction tool: play video games and do not do my work
Relaxation tool: lay back down in bed and do not do my work
Thinking tool: remember that I want to graduate and get a job and make money
I just want to have fun and not do my assignments during school closure.
Thinking Tool: I want a job that pays well in the future, so I want to graduate high school, so I want to do my school work.
Action Tool: I want to be healthy so I am going to exercise and tell my teacher what I did each day to get credit for PE.
Distraction tool: I can have fun by making meals and doing art at home. I will write what I made in my journal and get credit while I am having fun at home.
Relaxation tool: I will make a deal with my parent to purchase a new game when I get do my work and get Level 4 or 5. Then I can relax this weekend.
“I can’t get my work done because my family keeps talking to me and there is always someone doing something where I am trying to go to Zoom class”.
Action: Yell at my family or people in my house. Yell at them all to shut up.
Thinking: find a time of day when other people are busy with their own activities and do my work online during that time.
Relaxation: stay in my room and stay in my bed and don't do my work.
Distraction: play video games and do not do my work.
I cannot focus on my schoolwork when I am sitting on the couch or at the table. Why don't the people in my house leave me alone?
Thinking: I am going to run away from this house and then they'll know how mad I am.
Distraction: play video game and ignore school.
Relaxation: take a nap on the couch instead of doing any work.
Action: find a room with a door that closes. Make a "Do Not Disturb" sign to hang on the door knob when it is time for class.
“Watching the news gives me anxiety so I just don’t do the CNN 10 assignments.”
Relaxation: Stay in my room, stay in my bed and avoid hearing about the virus forever.
Action: email my teacher and behavior coach and ask for an alternative current events assignment.
Distraction: play video games and skip CNN10 forever.
Thinking: The news is usually about bad things so I just won't do CNN 10.
“I have to share my wifi hotspot, and sometimes when I am supposed to be in class, the network is really slow and I cannot hear or see my teacher and peers very well.”
Action: Change the wifi password and don't tell anyone in the house.
Thinking: I can tell my family when my Zoom class is scheduled and ask them to let me use the network for just 40 minutes out of the whole day by myself.
Distraction: I can play my games during Zoom and let my class window be slow.
Relaxation: I can imagine a happy place where the wifi is perfect and not do my work.
