Help Me Cope! Increasing Youth Resilience

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Welcome to Help Me Cope! – an educational quiz for youth ages 10 to 21. After filling out the quiz, a youth and his or her parent can discuss ideas about supporting resilience--the ability to handle stress or a crisis. I developed Help Me Cope! on the basis of my 40 years of experience as a child and family psychiatrist, helping young people and families deal with many different sources of stress.

Young people face lots of stress and can sometimes feel overwhelmed. But they also have great natural resilience – the ability to deal with stress, to be flexible, and to bounce back from problems.

Help Me Cope! is designed to let young people and the adults in their lives see, appreciate, and increase that resilience.

. The sample below contains just the first three questions.

How to use Help Me Cope!

By answering the quiz’s 38 questions, a young person can get a clearer understanding of their own resilience; each question includes immediate suggestions that might help the young person be more resilient and cope better with stress.

I ask that a youth who takes the quiz share the answers with an adult in their life, such as a parent, grandparent or counselor. This helps the adult understand better what the young person is going through and how they’re coping. It also provides an opportunity for conversation and discussion that might not come up in everyday interactions.

Now here is the start of the sample questions.

Thanks for your interest.

William R. Taylor, M.D.

Email wrbftaylor1 at comcast.net.

SAMPLE OF HELP ME COPE! A QUIZ ABOUT STRESS

We all have to cope when something bad happens to us or to our family. Bad things are called “stress” or a “crisis,” or an “emergency.”
To cope means to get control over the fear, anger, sadness, confusion--any upset feelings. Coping means keeping feelings under control enough to go on with school, work, and one’s usual life. We call that coping ability “resilience.”
This quiz asks about things that might help to cope better--to feel OK again after feeling upset. A parent or another adult can talk with you about your answers. Youths’ answers can tell the adult about the youth’s strengths, and possible need for help.
If a youth does not need help with stress or a crisis, the adult will see from the answers that they don't feel they need help.

If a youth needs help, parents or guardians must accept full responsibility for obtaining that help. This quiz is educational in nature, and cannot take the place of expert help.
Parent/guardian's permission is important! Any one using the quiz needs the consent of the parent or guardian for youth under 18.

How to Answer the Quiz
Youth or adults answering the quiz can think about some trouble or stress they have had.
What if you can’t think of a crisis or stress? You can still answer the questions.

Make an X in one of the boxes for each item. In some items you might check more than one box. NOTE: This online version will not accept typing in the boxes.

SAMPLE QUESTIONS

1. I know when I’m feeling stressed-- my hands shake, or I feel short of breath, or my heart speeds up, or I feel scared, angry, dizzy, can’t keep my mind on things, want to escape or leave the situation, or I get other feelings such as:________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
True /__/         Not True /__/            Don’t know, or Does not Apply to Me /__/

2. I’m learning how to face my fears and cope with stress
    from seeing how others cope, or
    from asking others how they cope, or
    from figuring things out for myself, or
    from reading or seeing a video about how to cope, or
    in some other way
True /__/         Not True /__/            Don’t know, or Does not Apply to Me /__/

3. I’m learning to stay calm, relax, not feel stressed, and find ways to solve the problems that I’m faced with
True /__/         Not True /__/            Don’t know, or Does not Apply to Me /__/

That's the end of the sample questions.

You can now obtain a copy of Help Me Cope! as part of my new book, Stressed Family, Strong Family: Coping with Problems, Building Resilience, Handling Crises.

This e-book on stress and resilience comes to you
over the Internet to your computer or hand-held device.

Click this link to order Stressed Family, Strong Family

Email wrbftaylor1 at comcast.net.