Resilience in the Face of Stress: Coping Strategies

Stress Coping refers to mental and behavioral efforts that we use to deal with problems relating to stress, including its presumed cause and the unpleasant feelings and emotions it produces. These mechanisms are commonly called coping skills or coping strategies. All coping strategies have the adaptive goal of reducing or dealing with stress, but some strategies can actually be maladaptive (unhealthy) or merely ineffective. This paper will focus on the various Stress Coping Strategies, how they operate and will acquaint with the best strategies to be followed when one is subjected to stress.