Coping Skills Word Search
This coping skills word search is a toolbox for big feelings: a slow belly breath, a stress ball to squeeze, a calm corner, cold water to splash on your face, a trusted adult to talk to, and learning what sets off a trigger in the first place.
Psychologists Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman sorted coping into two kinds in their 1984 book Stress, Appraisal, and Coping. Problem-focused coping changes the situation, like asking for help or making a plan for the test. Emotion-focused coping changes how you feel about it, like drawing, venting to a friend or reframing a bad day, and it is the right tool when the problem cannot be fixed right away.
Some of the strategies work through the body. Your heart beats a little faster on each breath in and a little slower on each breath out, so a long, slow exhale really does slow it down. Cold water on the face sets off the diving reflex that all mammals share, which drops the heart rate within seconds. Squeezing a fist hard and then letting go, called tense and release, helps you notice where you were holding stress without knowing it.
Free Coping Skills Word Search Online Game
Play the Coping Skills word search in your browser, on your own or head to head against a friend in real time. Nothing to install and no account needed – send someone the link and you are both looking at the same grid.
Coping Skills Word Search Printable Puzzles
Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Coping Skills word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
Hard
15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
Print or Download pdfMedium
12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
Print or Download pdfEasy
10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
Print or Download pdf
Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Coping Skills has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Belly Breath
- Bubbles
- Calm Corner
- Clay
- Cope
- Count
- Cry
- Dance
- Distract
- Draw
- Fidget
- Grounding
- Gum
- Hum
- Ice
- Jump
- Pillow
- Problem
- Reframe
- Release
- Run
- Safe Place
- Scribble
- Self Talk
- Shake
- Sing
- Splash
- Squeeze
- Stress Ball
- Swing
- Tense
- Thermometer
- Time Out
- Toolbox
- Trigger
- Trusted Adult
- Vent
- Visualize
- Walk Away
- Write