Coping

Used for

caregiver burden

Broader Terms

psychological adaptation

Narrower Terms

psychological defense mechanism

Related Terms

learned helplessness, stress management

Scope Note

adaptive method of dealing with individual or environmental situations that involve psychologic or physiologic stress or threat.

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• Key Elements of Coping One definition of coping is "having control of mental and bodily stability.
• Cognitive component - The cognitive approach to coping is based on a mental process of how the individual appraises the situation.
• com ac > How To Library > Tools > Hand Tools 9 > e The Coping Saw 59 5 e The Coping Saw 1c c0 Coping is a process by which one piece with an irregular surface is fitted to another.
• Emotion-focused coping is where a person when faced with a stressful event uses an emotional response to regulate the experience - often denial of the diagnosis or illness, which again in some cases can last up to several months to even years usually until the patient starts to take control again.
• While in the past coping was seen mainly as reactive, a strategy to be used once stress had been experienced, more recently coping is being seen as something one can do before stress occurs.