COPECARD coping skills impact
COPECARD coping skills are clinically sound, trauma informed, and delivered in engaging designs. This approach supports coping skills acquisition and knowledge conversion from short-term to long term memory (memory consolidation). Two of the real life impacts are:
Retrieval and implementation of healthy coping skills under stress
Self-regulation: moving from one’s emotional/stress brain to one’s thinking brain, supporting healthy decision making
Some impact testimonials:
“I was really angry that I had to clean a room and didn’t want to do it. So I went back to my room, sat down, and the COPECARDs popped in to my head. I started looking around the room, seeing the TV, the frig, using the grounding card. Lord behold, it helped! I calmed down and was able to go clean the room.” - Kim
“I got real stressed out yesterday. I was on the verge of quitting the program. I went straight to the faces (Identify Feelings COPECARD). I looked at where I was and then where I could be. I started breathing. I calmed all the way down and I mean, I came way down because I was up to a thousand. I realized that I don’t want to quit this. I want to finish what I started.” - Mary
“Everywhere you look, there is an answer, a positive solution. The design draws you in – people start looking at the design and become less upset.”- Amanda, in using the ASK FOR HELP COPECARD
“One time, It was a rough night. I was done. It was after 10, I couldn’t go outside for a smoke. So I was packing up to leave. The cards were in my drawer. I picked them up. The one with the arrows was on top. (ASK FOR HELP COPECARD) The cards helped me center myself so I could think things through instead of making a rash decision. I decided to stay.” - Anna
“I was skeptical, I didn’t think it was going to work. I was upset after talking with my daughter. I started using the card. By the time I got to smelling, I realized, I‘m actually not upset anymore. I noticed I was thinking more than feeling. It switched me over to my thinking brain. I had no tightness in my chest and I wasn’t breathing rapidly anymore.” - Amanda, in using 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding COPECARD