Exploring Coping Skills with Kids Full Year (40 Week) Lesson Plan

This is a 40 week lesson plan designed to help kids find and try different coping skills and create ways to make it easier for them to use those coping skills. During these lessons, you will lead your group through the basics of labeling feelings, understanding what a coping skill is, then exploring strategies using the visual coping skills checklist. Then you’ll dive in and actually try some coping skills together. The lessons wrap up with creating an individual coping skills toolkit designed by the participants in the group, which includes their own preferred strategies. There are 40 Weeks of lessons and tons of printables included! These lessons are designed for small groups, perfect for school, after school programs, teen counseling programs, specialized camps, etc. This lesson plan is based on the Coping Skills for Kids Workbook as well as resources available in the Coping Skills Hub. You can customize or expand these lessons by adding in strategies found in the Coping Skills Hub.