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.
What Are Protective Factors in Psychology? 36 Examples
Through adversity, we acquire skills, abilities, and attributes that enable us to not just survive, but ultimately, thrive. French psychiatrist Pierre Janet said: “Every life [...]
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 [...]
Defense Mechanisms in Psychology Explained (+ 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 [...]
How to Deal With Anxiety: 5 Coping Skills and Worksheets
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 [...]
The Science of Coping: 10+ Strategies & Skills (Incl. Wheel)
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 [...]
The Crisis Kit: 5 Tools to Help Clients Through Turbulence
A note from the team here at PositivePsychology.com, concerning COVID-19… Like many of you, our hearts are heavy with concerns for the global community’s wellbeing. [...]
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 [...]
Resilience Theory: A Summary of the Research (+PDF)
Life is never perfect. As much as we wish things would ‘just go our way,’ difficulties are inevitable and we all have to deal with [...]
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 [...]
