Different ways of dealing with challenges

Coping styles
Different individuals use different coping styles to deal with
challenging and stressful situations.

Understanding how people cope with

▪ trauma

▪psychological stress

▪extended periods of feeling at-risk

is critical to helping them manage their reactions .

 Different coping styles
are affected by…

▪Personality components

▪Existing coping resources

▪External circumstances
 BASIC PH Coping Model
By Dr.Mooli Lahad
▪ People possess six potential dimensions that are at
the core of an individual's coping style.
▪ Everyone has the innate ability to use each
dimension.
▪ Most people tend to rely upon comfortable coping
methods that have been developed over time.
▪ Expanding the coping repertoire is done by

# providing the environment

# modeling
# encouragement
Belief
Seeking meaning through religion or
spirituality.
Helps us make sense out of our
experiences.
Gives us something to lean on.
How does your belief help you cope.
Affect
oRelying upon the ability to express feelings
and emotion.
oShare anxieties, fears, anger, sorrow, and
grief, and have those emotions validated by
other people.
oIn that way we don’t feel so alone with our
feelings.
oHow do you express your feelings?
Social
▪ Seeking support and control
through relationships.
▪ The roles and responsibilities within
a social context can increase
connections and strengthen our
sense of well being.
▪ How do your social connections
help you?
Imagination
Children frequently turn to their
creativity as a means of coping with
trauma.
Adults use imagination to plan for the
future.
Imaginations helps us think of
different possible solutions.
How do you use your imagination?
Cognitive
 Utilizing a problem solving direct approach to
deal with issues of concern.

 Thinking about a problem in a logical way helps

us organize our thoughts and functioning.

 Using cognition can help us break down a

complex problem into smaller tasks.

 How has thinking about a problem helped you?

PHysical
 Physical activity allows necessary
processing of traumatic experiences to
occur.
 It helps us restore our sense of
capability and control.
 Physical doing promotes cognitive
process.
 What kind of physical activity helps
you?
▪Belief - seeking meaning through religion or spirituality.
▪Affect - relying upon the ability to express feelings and
emotion.

▪Social – seeking support and control through relationships.

▪Imagination – Children frequently turn to their creativity as a
means of coping with trauma.

▪Cognitive – utilizing a problem solving direct approach, to

deal with issues of concern.

▪PHysical – physical activity allows necessary processing of

traumatic experiences to occur.
What do I see?