Adaptive or Maladaptive
This type of coping provides temporary relief from stress but can make problems worse in the long run.
What is maladaptive?
Sharing your feelings about a personal crisis with a trusted friend or family member provides this form of coping.
What is social focused coping?
Your boss gives you negative feedback in a meeting, and you feel your heart pounding with anger. Give me a healthy way to cope with this...
What are,
- Take a few moments to do this simple breathing exercise
- Asking to take a minute to process before responding
- Try reframing it as an opportunity to grow and consider if your boss has some merit to their criticism?
This type of skill involves anticipating future stressors and taking steps to prepare for them.
When you make a mistake, this is the act of treating yourself with kindness rather than harsh criticism.
What is self-compassion or self-kindness?
Coping that leads to long-lasting positive changes in mental and physical health.
What is adaptive?
Instead of ignoring difficult feelings, this skill involves acknowledging and allowing them without judgment, which is a type of coping.
What is emotional focused coping?
After a difficult breakup, you feel an overwhelming sense of sadness. To process these feelings constructively, you...
What is...
- Journal
- Seek therapy
- Allow yourself to feel it and treat your sadness as a friend to comfort?
This type of coping is a spontaneous response to a stressor after it has already occurred.
What is reactive coping?
This internal process involves letting go of self-blame, guilt, and shame for past mistakes.
What is self-forgiveness?
Using alcohol to forget about a problem, only to face the issue again with a hangover (making you want to drink more).
What is maladaptive?
You get a new boss and are anxious, but you consciously focus on the positive aspects of the change, which is this type of coping.
What is meaning-focused coping?
You're stuck in traffic and are feeling increasingly frustrated, you...
What is turning on the radio/a podcast to distract yourself?
Taking a First Aid course before a hiking trip in case of an emergency is an example of this type of coping.
What is proactive?
One of the three components of self-compassion, this concept recognizes that suffering and imperfections are a normal part of the human experience.
What is common humanity?
Practicing deep breathing exercises to manage anxiety during a work presentation is an example of this type of coping.
What is adaptive?
To manage financial stress, you create a household budget and look for ways to cut expenses. This is an example of this coping skill type.
What is problem-focused coping?
Your roommate's messiness is causing tension in your living space. Instead of letting resentment build, you...
What is setting boundaries?
Planning for how you will handle a job promotion before it even happens, to manage future stress.
What is proactive?
The three core components of self-compassion are self-kindness, common humanity, and this.
What is self-forgiveness?
Rather than confronting a family conflict, you ignore it and hope it will go away
What is maladaptive?
What is temporary avoidance?
After a job loss, you...
What is...
- Reframe it as an opportunity
- Learn new skills to increase employability
- Work to improve your resume and start job searching online and in person
- Go to your local work resource center to seek professional assistance?
When you get a bad grade and vent to your friends to feel better.
What is reactive?
Tell me one way you can increase your mindfulness.
What are
•Scan the body for pain/tension
•Label the sensation and emotion
•Say it out loud or write it down?