Lesson 12-Wrapping Up Coping Power

Welcome back to the final video in our Coping Power Caregivers series. We are so grateful that you and your child have joined us throughout the program, and we hope that you’re already starting to see the value of these great new skills applied in your child’s everyday life.

Both the classroom lesson and small group session this week focus on celebrating all of the amazing learning and accomplishments of your child.

Your child is reviewing everything they’ve covered throughout the course:

·       Recognizing emotions and their intensity

·       Perspective Taking and Healthy Friendships

·       The PICC Model for breaking down problems

·       Thought-Based Coping and Positive Self-Talk

·       Active Coping

·       Relaxation

·       Active Listening and I-Messages

·       Bullying and How to Become an Upstander

·       Barriers to Coping and How to Overcome These Barriers

For reminders on any of these topics, please feel free to review any of the previous “Caregiver Nudges” for more information.

All of these skills tie into our four main program goals, which were: to learn to manage strong emotions, to problem solve difficult situations, to build social communication skills, and to successfully navigate peer relationships and conflicts.

While the Coping Power program is wrapping up at school, we hope you’ll continue to have these valuable conversations with your child at home. After all, you are their most important influence and role model! This week’s Power Practice gives you some suggestions for continuing to practice the Coping Power skills now that the lessons at school are complete.

Next time your child faces a difficult situation, remind them of the coping tools they’ve already learned, like active coping, thought coping, relaxation, and self-control. You can also help them to PICC apart a problem together, by identifying the problem, their choices in response to that problem, and the consequences each of those choices might have.

Lastly, we encourage you to ask your child about the strengths and skills they gained during the Coping Power program. With their classmates and teacher, they had the opportunity to provide one another with compliments and feedback on the skills they’ve learned – ask them to share the strengths that others mentioned in them, and what it was like to hear those compliments!

Thanks again for your continued participation and support throughout this program. We wish you and your child a fantastic school year!