Coping Skills

Learning coping skills, just like learning other tasks, passes through four important phases. Understanding these phases can make the learning process more effective.

Children need to learn how to cope with their anger somehow with good role models. Different activities can be fun and help teach them at the same time.

Depression can be a reflexive response to many root causes. Like Hercules' battle with Lernean Hydra depression seems to grow a new head every time one is cut off. Quelling depression, or learning to manage it, is a one day at a time process.

This is an article on how record keeping can help someone deal with bipolar disorder.

For children who develop anxiety, the complication is often associated with the "diathesis-stress" model where predisposition or heredity plays a role.

Simple steps on how to cope with having Bipolar Disorder. 4 steps to get you on track to better management of Bipolar Disorder.

Here are some tips I use to escape the endless sadness that has come into society's daily lives in this country.

By now, the name Tyler Clementi is a familiar one. For those unaware, he was the young, promising, and beautiful 18 year old college student who recently committed suicide after being unfairly "outed"...

There are close to 11 million people in the country who are caring for an ailing parent, spouse, child or significant other. A caregiver's role is stressful and emotionally draining. Here are some tips on coping.

Puberty. Hormones. The pituitary gland has a lot to answer for. It steals away your precious infant and drops a snarling tornado of tears in her place. The poor parents are left shell-shocked in the wake of the storm.

Instruction, modeling, role play, and feedback are the four common teaching methods used by trainers. Trainers need to educate about how our opinion can influence our approach and behavior.

Tips to help you cope with the illness of a spouse.

Information about five different types of post-divorce counseling options.

It is possible to develop more resilient skills as a family and learn how to stay strong during times of crisis.

Being Single Does Not Have To Be Lonely

Dissociative Identity Disorder is a coping mechanism, not a disease.

Anesthetized no longer, the first pangs of feelings in your addiction recovery can be painful to you no matter what they are. It is important to know how to handle feelings as you begin to thaw out in addiction recovery.

people are losing the ability to cope with life

Having a child go off to kindergarten isn't only difficult for parents - it's hard for the pre-ker left behind. These little ones needed coping skills of their own.