Coping Strategies
What is active coping?
initiating action to overcome or manage a stressor
Intentionally avoiding doing something to reduce stress
suppression
This coping skill is done to help us release our emotions
Emotional release
Meridian points
What change behavior is where you talk with people
Listening to the other person and listening to understand not just respond.
What is passive coping?
Strategies that do not require active engagement of the individual
ex. avoiding the stressor
Denying that something happened to use because we are afraid of how it will affect us later
Exercise
Give two meridian points of tapping
1. Eyebrow point
2. Side of eye
Making a plan that will benefit you the most with the least amount of risk
What is avoidant coping?
disengagement from the stressor
This is a defense mechanism we do when we actually feel a certain emotion but we believe the other person is feeling that emotion
Projection
This skill allows you to move in ways to increase your flexibility and calm you
Yoga
What is the set-up phrase for tapping
"Even though" which is followed by the issue you are focusing on and a phrase of acceptance
Why do you need to use "I-statements"
Successful coping comprises these 3 things
flexible, realistic, adaptive
All or nothing defense mechanism. See person or situation solely from a positive or negative view
Splitting
This skill is done when you absorb you mind into something else
Distraction
What does measuring intensity of tapping do
Helps the person to examine how their emotions are. Allows you to check in the body.
Give 3 parts of the change behavior model
1. Precontemplation
2. Contemplation
3. Preparation
4. Action
5. Maintenance
3. Relapse
What is benefit finding?
"the process of deriving growth from adversity"
Rather than expression our emotions about something, we try to attempt in creating "intellectual" reasoning outside our own knowledge for why something happened
Intellectualization
This skill is done when you need a brain break
Mindfulness or Going to Safe Space
1. Focusing on the pain you want to address
2 Restore body's energy
3. Bring the body into balance
What does STOP mean in the change behavior model
T- Think about what is happening
O: Options: list all your options
P: Plan out what you are going to do