Teen-Focused Resources · TE-09
Realistic Self-Care Menu
Choose replenishing or protective actions that fit available time, energy, access, money, and support.
Clinician-created · specialist review requiredFor 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.
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
- Look across the menu for options that fit your energy, access, time, and preferences.
- Choose one action, change an option, add your own, or pass.
- Include practical needs, boundaries, connection, sensory needs, rest, and no-cost choices.
- Seek additional support when self-care cannot address an unsafe condition or unmet basic need.
Reflection prompts
- Which options feel realistic rather than expected?
- What barriers make care harder to access?
- What needs action from another person, service, or system?
Facilitator guidance
Frame self-care as one possible support, not a treatment, responsibility to cope with harm, or replacement for safety, healthcare, accommodation, or material resources.
Adaptations & accessibility
- Create low-energy, no-cost, private, social, and sensory-specific menus.
- Replace movement or sensory items with accessible equivalents.
- Include asking for help and reducing demands as valid options.
Professional-use review
Standard licensed-clinician, accessibility, and safeguarding review required before use.
