Coping

Learning Intention: We will...

Develop an understanding of strategies for coping with stressors

Success Criteria: I can...

List strategies
Come up with examples of strategies
Differentiate between strategies

Key Vocabulary:

Stressor
Coping
Context specific effectiveness
Coping flexibility
Approach based coping
Avoidance based coping

Prior Knowledge/Warm Up Activity:

Brainstorm: what are coping strategies that can be used to deal with a stressor?

New Knowledge:

Coping

Coping

Application task

Complete do now scenario (below)

Explain whether each of the following stress coping strategies involves approach, avoidance or both.

meditating
praying for guidance or strength
procrastination
waiting until an appropriate opportunity presents itself before taking action
seeking social support for emotional reasons
seeking advice from a friend
(exercise

Complete the table below to summarise approach and avoidance coping strategies. Include two of your own examples for each strategy.

How did you go?

The cartoon at the right depicting a coping strategy.
- Explain whether the cartoon depicts use of approach or avoidance.
- What is an advantage and a disadvantage of using this type of strategy in both the short and long term?

Extension of Learning

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