Building Self Awareness and Healthy Coping Skills in Middle School and High School Students

No matter what topic you are working on with a middle or high school student, they can always benefit from a discussion on healthy coping skills.  As counselors, we wish we could eliminate the stress from our students' lives, but we cannot.  We can, however, equip them with knowledge of healthy coping skills.

I created this self assessment of healthy coping skills to complete in a first session with a student.  (I couldn't find any self assessments that I liked.)  It is a good ice breaker and gives you some important baseline information.  I feel it is most appropriate with middle and high school students.  Most often, students are very honest and rate their use of coping skills very well.  I would also use this as an exit activity or when moving students to a "monitor" status.  

You can find this self assessment here:

Self Assessment for Healthy Coping Skills