Mental Health Life Skills Worksheets
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The Happier Therapy editorial team is made up of Masters and PhD counselling psychologists. Each worksheet is created by a team member with exposure to and experience in the subject matter. The worksheet then gets reviewed by a more senior editorial member. This is someone with extensive knowledge of the subject matter and highly cited published material.
We face a lot of challenges in everyday life. Such emotional, psychological, and social problems cause a lot of mental health issues requiring specific skills to manage a better lifestyle. Life skills include various dimensions of growth for empowering individuals to have a positive approach towards life with healthy living and interpersonal relationships. Here, we will focus on two, coping with stress and emotions – referred to as mental health life skills, out of ten life skills identified by UNICEF, UNESCO, and WHO.
What Are the Theories Behind This Worksheet?
The Lazarus and Folkman (1984) Model of Stress and Coping was not only recognized as the most effective tool to overcome stress and manage emotional reactions to challenging events but also has years of scientific advocacy for coping strategies and adaptive functioning of living beings.
How Will This Worksheet Help you?
The major benefit of this worksheet is to help you identify your key coping strategy out of problem-focused and emotion-focused approaches to manage the daily hassle adaptively. Also, a problem-focused strategy is the best approach to deal with the resolution of issues, and an emotion-focused strategy is better for managing the emotional impact of the problem. So, to equip you with the better approach taken in action at the right time.
How Should You Use This Worksheet?
This worksheet is useful for everyone out there as life skills are usually necessary to get along with the daily challenges of life for effective functioning and greater well-being.
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