Resilience & Coping
Resilience is often described as the ability of the individual to bounce back after having experienced hardship. Resilience is mostly based on personal strengths, resources, and psychological capital.
Defense Mechanisms Worksheets: 10 Tools for Practitioners
Perhaps unsurprisingly, we are all likely to experience trauma more than once in our lives. Less widely known is our reliance on psychological defenses to [...]
13 Types of Defense Mechanisms in Psychology (+ Examples)
As a therapist, you will often find yourself in situations when your client is displaying adaptive and maladaptive behaviors, perceptions, and thoughts in response to [...]
36 Ways to Find a Silver Lining During Challenging Times
We’ve all been there. Whether it’s a bad day or a truly terrible situation, life will try to knock us down. Fortunately, many coping strategies [...]
Anxiety Coping Skills for Adults & Students
At some point, each of us will experience anxiety and stress. Recognizing that you are experiencing anxiety is the first healthy step toward learning how [...]
How to Use The Coping Wheel (+ 5 More Coping Strategies)
Can’t cope? Overwhelmed? Stressed? We all have trouble coping at some points in life. We don’t get the promotion we hoped for; our relationship breaks [...]
5+ Ways to Develop a Growth Mindset Using Grit & Resilience
When was the last time you showed resilience? How about grit? It has been several years since Angela Duckworth’s TED talk catapulted these two traits [...]
6 Scales to Measure Coping + The Brief Cope Inventory
Sometimes life seems to pile up all at once. We find ourselves juggling a multitude of daily challenges, large and small, or unexpected events that [...]
How to Use the Connor Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC)
The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale was developed by two researchers — Kathryn M. Conner and Jonathan R.T. Davidson. Connor is a psychiatrist and a researcher at [...]
What is Coping Theory? Definition & Worksheets
What is your first reaction in the face of sudden stress? Do you make a plan to overcome it? Talk it out with your friends? [...]
Resilience in Education & How to Foster Resilient Students
Teachers who teach resilience might change the trajectory of their student’s lives. It is not easy to teach resilience in the classroom, but it is crucial. [...]
