Coping skills for self-esteem are valuable strategies that help clients improve self-esteem and maintain a positive self-image. These skills are essential for emotional development because they teach healthy ways to handle setbacks. For young clients, these skills are especially important, as they are still learning how to deal with emotions and build self-confidence.
The Self-Esteem Coping Skills for Kids handout offers child-friendly tips for improving self-esteem. It provides easy-to-follow tips for self-esteem building, such as focusing on having healthy habits, recognizing strengths, and developing their character.
Using these coping skills at a young age helps kids and teens develop a constructive response to stress, which shapes their self-esteem as they grow. Practicing these along with saying affirmations can make them feel more capable, motivated, and ready to face challenges.
Caring adults can support children in using these skills by modeling them, and encouraging kids to practice regularly. They can also encourage them to practice skills to build self-confience, which goes hand-in-hand with coping skills to build self-esteem.
References:
- Cui, S., Cheng, F., Zhang, L., Zhang, C., Yuan, Q., Huang, C., Zhang, K., & Zhou, X. (2021). Self-esteem, social support and coping strategies of left-behind children in rural China, and the intermediary role of subjective support:a cross-sectional survey. BMC Psychiatry, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03160-y
- Ekeland, E., Heian, F., Hagen, K., Abbott, J., & Nordheim, L. (2002). Exercise to improve self-esteem in children and young people. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd003683
- Keshky, M., & Samak, Y. (2017). The development of self esteem in children: Systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Psychology & Behavior Analysis, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.15344/2455-3867/2017/128
