Coping

=toc Definition: = Efforts through action and thought to deal with demands that are perceived as taxing or overwhelming. p 329 Gen Psych, Chapter 10, pp 329-330

Negative Examples of Coping include:

 * Drinking
 * Smoking
 * Telling yourself everything will be fine
 * Holding it in and Moving on. Never to actually resolve the isssue.

Positive Examples of Coping inculde:

 * Calling a friend
 * Reading a book
 * Going out to dinner to get your mind off of things
 * Writing things down to get them off your mind
 * Going to a therapist

Mnemonics:
C-carefully O-operating P-percisely I-in N-nature's G-Gift (give a mnemonic in place of the bracketed text above, then delete these instructions. If you don't know of any examples, leave this section unchanged for someone else to improve on.)

In the News:
Coping @http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/laugh-cry-live/201207/coping-the-tragic-news-the-colorado-theater-massacre @http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1690139/dark-knight-rises-shooting-coping-experts.jhtml @http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Cancerinformation/Endoflife/Dyingwithcancer/Copingwiththenews.aspx @http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/09/07/coping-with-divorce-words-tell-the-story/17774.html @http://www.caldwell.edu/news/hurricane-coping.aspx media type="youtube" key="dE0XtjdIg6U?feature=player_detailpage" height="360" width="640"media type="youtube" key="iup0msVJeAI?feature=player_detailpage" height="360" width="640"



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