Stress and Coping

In class this week we talked about the stresses in life and how to cope with them.  It was interesting for me to learn that stress in life is not always bad, it can be a good thing.  When we cope for stresses and experiences that may come into our life, we will become better prepared if those types of problems come back around.  I believe that we can even become grateful of the crisis's that we have had after they have happened, it can be one of those blessings in disguise.

The method that I learned about with stress and coping is as follows:
Actual Stressor Event
Both Resources, Responses
Cognition
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Total EXperience

ABC will eventually give us the end result of X.  There is the possibility of learning from our mistakes and stressors and cognitively seeing it as differently.

Stressors can pull at families which leads to people coping with different outlooks:

• drugs or alcohol
• religion
• avoiding the problem
• self blame or blaming on others

The most important aspect that I have learned from this class is to be involved with the children and be very open with communication.