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Coping
strategies are learned by observing others, most often our parents.
Adaptive coping
strategies are productive and work to resolve the situation and produce
long-term positive results. For the ill patient, adaptive behaviors
help the person adjust to the illness, solve problems, and cooperate with
the therapeutic program.
Maladaptive
strategies
are
counterproductive
and result in additional problems that set the person up to be placed back
in similar situations, leading to further challenges.
Active
coping is a healthy promotional strategy that is characterized by actively
facing the problem and seeking resources to resolve the situation, i.e.
seeking help, seeking information, problem solving, etc.
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