Build Your Coping Toolbox complete therapy resource page

Coping & Regulation · CR-09

Build Your Coping Toolbox

Choose and customize a set of coping options that may fit different moments.

Clinician-created · facilitator review required
Developmental range: Ages 5-1220-35 minutesActivityAdult professional use

For clinician-facilitated use

This is a professional resource, not a child-facing online service. A licensed clinician or other qualified adult must determine suitability, explain and adapt the activity, and supervise its use. Do not direct a child to access this webpage independently or enter client information.

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The full-resolution WebP includes print-safe margins and should be downloaded by an adult professional. Read the guidance below before using the page.

How to use it

  1. Look through the tools and choose any you want to keep, change, or try later.
  2. Add your own tools and a not for me space.
  3. Cut and store pieces with adult help when needed.

Reflection prompts

  • Which tools fit different kinds of moments?
  • Which tools need a person, place, or material to be available?
  • What could you try if the first choice does not help?

Facilitator guidance

Support personalization across movement, sensory, social, creative, practical, and quiet options. Review cutting safety and avoid presenting the toolbox as a promise of calm.

Adaptations & accessibility

  • Use pre-cut pieces, hook-and-loop dots, magnets, or pointing.
  • Create a digital drag-and-drop or photo-based toolbox.
  • Limit choices and add blank personalized tools.

Professional-use review

Standard licensed-clinician and age-appropriate materials-safety review required before use.

This clinician-created resource is published for professional evaluation. Before client use, the treating clinician or other qualified adult must determine whether it is appropriate and complete every specialist, accessibility, safeguarding, and local-policy review named above. Publication does not represent individualized clinical approval.