05 Nov Please reflect on the coping strategies that you use in your daily life. Listed below are examples of coping strategies
Coping Strategies
Please reflect on the coping strategies that you use in your daily life. Listed below are examples of coping strategies:
Positive coping strategy – This is a strategy that enables you to restore emotional balance; feel better about yourself; is respectful of you, others, and property; and helps you to solve the problem.
Negative coping strategy – This is a strategy that does not restore emotional balance; may be harmful to yourself, others, or property; does not solve the problem, and may create additional problems.
Neutral coping strategy – This is a strategy that is neither positive nor negative, but used to excess, could be harmful.
Time-out strategy – This is a strategy that helps you to calm down and restore emotional balance. It is only temporary and must be used with another positive strategy in order to solve the problem.
Choose a strong feeling (for example, anger) and discuss the strategies that you use when you experience that feeling. Comment on whether each action is a positive coping strategy, negative, neutral, or time-out. (In some cases, an action may be either positive or negative depending on the circumstances – elaborate.)
Consider the following questions:
Which strategies do you use most often? What is the effect of this?
What happened when you used negative strategies?
Are there times when some of the negative strategies might be appropriate?
I could use time out strategies when …
Content: A successful assignment will include:
Paper recognizes how you react to a strong emotion through coping skills/styles.
Addresses your common mode(s) of coping: Which strategies do you use most often? What is the effect of this? What happened when you used negative strategies? Are there times when some of the negative strategies might be appropriate? I could use time out strategies when …
Format:
The essay should be a minimum of 250 words in length, not counting any headings (name, date, etc) or references.
