Coping Skills for Teens: Coping with Jealous Feelings
This session teaches coping skills for teens, helping older students recognize jealous feelings and shift their focus toward their own strengths. They consider why jealousy is hard to manage, discuss how naming what they are good at can change the moment, and work through a short interaction in a quick game, mapping what each person felt and where things went off track. The takeaway is a practical way to notice a tough feeling and respond with intention.
Extension activity
- Skill
- Emotional Recognition
- Goal
- Changing the Channel on Feelings
- Grade level
- Middle & High School
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Engaging materials
Video modeling lessonCoping with Jealous Feelings
The steps to recognizing and coping with jealous feelings are introduced.
- Extension activity
Interactive Worksheet: Understanding Jealousy
This interactive fill-in-the-blank activity helps students understand and cope with jealous feelings in a healthy way.
Plus everything you need to teach them
Warm-up
- Video: 4-7-8 Breathing2:13
- Video: Obstacles into Opportunities Visualization1:19
- Video: Yoga Pose Library
Session Opener
Guiding Question: Why is coping with jealousy hard to do?
Practice
- Discussion Question
- Role-Play Activity
- Mini Game
How to use it with your students
- 1Watch Play the video modeling lesson so students see the skill in action.
- 2Practice Try the skill together with a discussion prompt, role-play, or mini game.
- 3Extend Use the extension activity to help students carry the skill further.
What's Covered
In this lesson, students learned that jealousy is a normal feeling that comes up when someone seems to have something they want. They practiced recognizing that feeling and coping with it by talking it through with someone they trust and focusing on their own strengths. They also tried seeing the situation from the other person's point of view.
Key Terms
- Change the Channel
- Change the Channel is a self-regulation strategy you can use when a strong emotion is building. You notice what you’re feeling, then intentionally shift your attention using coping skills like deep breathing, positive self-talk, or taking space so you can think more clearly.
- Jealousy
- Jealousy is the uncomfortable feeling that comes up when someone else has something you want, like an achievement, a belonging, or a friendship. You can notice the feeling without acting on it and decide how you want to respond.
Sample IEP Goal This Session Supports
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Changing the Channel on Feelings
When experiencing strong emotions such as jealousy, disappointment, frustration, or embarrassment, learner will use a self-selected coping strategy (e.g., taking a break, positive self-talk, deep breaths) to manage the feeling and return to the task or interaction in 4 out of 5 opportunities independently/given X prompt(s).
Send this tip home to support generalization
At home or in the classroom, when a student seems jealous of a peer, try asking what they feel strong or confident about right now. Naming one of their own strengths can make the jealous feeling less overwhelming.
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Frequently asked questions
Is this intervention free?
Yes, this ready-to-teach session on Coping with Jealous Feelings is free. You can access this intervention free for 14 days through the Everyday Speech Session Library. Every user gets three free sessions, but you can get more or extend your access by sharing the Session Library with friends and colleagues.
What ages is this for?
These materials are designed for middle and high school students.
What's included?
You'll get access to your choice of warm-up videos, a session opener, a core material on Coping with Jealous Feelings, three practice prompts, and an extension activity, Interactive Worksheet: Understanding Jealousy.
What skill does this intervention teach?
This ready-to-teach session is on emotional recognition - more specifically, changing the channel on feelings.
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