Coping Skills for Kids: Innovative Activity-Based Techniques to Effectively Manage Anxiety, ADHD, and Anger – Janine Halloran

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Kids are ANXIOUS.

Kids are STRESSED.

Kids are ANGRY.

While there are certain kids who struggle more…

All kids will experience periods of stress, worry, anger, and anxiety.

And every child needs to learn how to cope with all these feelings in a healthy and safe way.

I, Janine Halloran, M.A., LMHC, have been working with kids, adolescents, and families for over 18 years.

And I know from my experience as a professional AND a mom…

…Calm doesn’t come easily for all kids.

Think about it. When you tell a child to “take a nice, deep breath and slow down” while they are in the middle of a meltdown or an anxiety attack, what happens?

They do the opposite!

And when the child throws a tantum, let’s face it…we can also get upset.

But wouldn’t it be great to give children the coping strategies and relaxation techniques they can use to self-regulate?

You can!

That’s why I’m inviting you to learn some of the best tips, techniques, and strategies that you can use immediately with kids that are having a hard time working with their emotions.

In this completely self-paced online course, I share hundreds of proven, self-regulation strategies that really work!

The methods are easy-to-understand and easy-to-apply.

• Save time (and your sanity) and give these children the gift of self-regulation.
• Help even the most challenging children you work with breakthrough — no more kicking, screaming, or throwing things.
• Stop guessing! Arm yourself with strategies to calm the next child who has an emotional outburst in your classroom or office!

Because when you finally know how to respond to that child in crisis — everything will change.

Imagine being that life-changing adult who can actually teach a child how to calm down their BIG emotions.

Help your kids find new ways to cope with life’s BIG challenges!

Here’s What You’ll Get When You Sign Up:

MODULE 1 : 

Anxiety, ADHD, and Anger:
60 Activity-Based Coping Skills to Effectively Manage “Big Feelings”

Coping Skills Overview

• The autonomic nervous system & coping skills
• 4 types of coping skills: calming, physical, distraction and processing
• Coping skills checklist to identify current skills and strengths
• Preventative interventions

Skills and Strategies: Interactive Exercises Deep Breathing – Beyond “Taking a Deep Breath”

• Props – pinwheels, bubbles, stuffed animals, Hoberman sphere
• Words – to encourage deep breaths, “smell the soup, cool down the soup”, etc.
• Shapes – star breathing, lazy 8 breathing, square breathing, triangle breathing
• Your Body – your hand, whole body movement

Coping Skills for Anxiety/Stress

• Mindfulness Practice – one mindful minute, spiderman mindfulness, audio and visual mindfulness scripts, Grounding Techniques – 54321 grounding, alphabet grounding
• Identifying and taming anxiety – take-home worksheets to help identify anxiety, including a thermometer for anxiety, “sources of stress”

Coping Skills for ADHD

• Plan movement and sensory breaks
• The importance of play, hobbies, and having fun: calming jars, fidgets, sand trays, zen gardens
• Coping skills for stress
• Manage stressful times – the importance of play, hobbies, and having fun
• Sensory Ideas – calming jars, fidgets, sand trays, zen gardens

Coping Skills for Anger/Frustration

• Small physical movement activities to manage frustration – squeezing play dough, scribble drawing, bubble wrap, ripping paper
• Big physical movement activities to manage anger – jumping jacks, running, wall pushups, obstacle courses, yoga
• Processing anger – comic strip processing, what I can control vs. what I can’t control worksheet

Practical Implementation Ideas for the Classroom or Office

• Make a coping skills toolkit for your room – fidgets, coping skills cue cards and other visuals to help, including distraction coping skills like word searches, hidden pictures, etc.
• Creating a calm down spot/calm down room – identify a good spot, create an area that is peaceful and relaxing, include the coping skills toolkit
• Practice your own coping skills – mindfulness and self-care worksheet

MODULE 2 : 

Coping Skills for Kids and Tweens:
How to Manage Big Feelings in an Uncertain Time and Beyond

Anxiety, Stress, and Anger in a Pandemic

• Explore how the pandemic has impacted the social and emotional lives of our children
• Why Social Emotional Learning is important now more than ever
• How our needs and windows of tolerance have changed

Coping Skills for Anxiety

• Deep Breathing Ideas
• Mindfulness Strategies
• Relaxation/Calming Activities for Kids 

Coping Skills for Stress

• Scheduling to reduce stress
• The importance of play and downtime
• Using your senses to manage stress

Coping Skills for Anger/Frustration

• Understand that anger is often just the tip of the iceberg – a lot of feelings hide beneath 
• Safe ways to express anger with movement
• Setting up individual calm down kits for kids

BONUS : 

Coping Skills for Kids Workbook: Over 75 Coping Strategies to Help Kids Deal with Stress, Anxiety and Anger [PDF Download] by Janine Halloran, LMHC — A $24.99 value!

140 pages featuring over 75 innovative, fun and engaging activities that you can use in schools, clinics, and at home….Loved by counselors, educators and parents alike!!

• “This is a wonderful book, very detailed and helpful!”
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  “Any therapist would benefit from having a copy of this.”
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  “I will be recommending this book to all the families I see.”
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Social Skills for Kids: Over 75 Fun Games & Activities for Building Better Relationships, Problem Solving & Improving Communication [PDF Download] by Janine Halloran, LMHC — A $24.99 value!

Nearly 200 pages highlighting the best play experiences for kids to learn and practice social skills in real places and situations. Includes reproducible, step-by-step plans for play including alternatives for each activity and debriefing questions that reinforce learning!