Coping Menu Worksheet Compact Final

A 6-session dialectical emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance group counseling curriculum designed for high school counselors supporting students struggling with self-harm urges. Each 30-minute session delivers targeted grounding practices, physiological resets, urge-surfing tools, and safety planning.

Synthesizes all skills into a personalized pocket crisis and regulation blueprint. Students identify safe adults, rehearse escalation protocols, and celebrate progress as the group concludes.

A personalized 6-step crisis regulation and safety blueprint documenting early warning signs, coping skills, safe contacts, and environmental safety.

A high school science SEL sequence that fosters inclusive collaboration, empathetic communication, and barrier-free scientific discourse across grades 9 through 11.

Explores the relationship between harsh self-criticism, overwhelming emotion, and self-harming behavior. Students practice dialectical opposite action and develop compassionate self-coaching scripts.

A 30-minute counselor facilitation protocol for Session 6, guiding closure, relapse prevention, individual check-in scheduling, and personalized crisis safety blueprint completion.

A four-week social-emotional lunch bunch sequence for Kindergarten students focusing on identifying core feelings and learning foundational calming strategies. Designed specifically for brief 20-30 minute lunchtime group sessions with high-engagement visuals and low-mess activities.

Focuses on riding out self-harm impulses through the 15-minute delay principle and sensory replacement behaviors. Students create a personalized tactile and sensory alternative kit.

A student cognitive-reappraisal handout featuring DBT opposite action formulas, inner critic reframing exercises, and self-compassion grounding scripts.

A six-week small group curriculum for adolescent girls designed to build self-esteem, interpersonal loyalty, healthy boundaries, stress regulation, everyday etiquette, and future aspirations through engaging 30-minute weekly circles.

Guides students through identifying early somatic warning signs and situational triggers before distress peaks. Students map their personal emotional wave and explore the anatomy of an urge.

A 30-minute counselor facilitation protocol for Session 5, guiding students to challenge harsh self-critical narratives through DBT opposite action and compassionate self-coaching.