Exploring Coping Options

Develop adaptive response to reduce this pandemic related stress. I have divided individuals coping into three stages, before encounter the threat, during actual threat and after effect of the stressful event. If we have more option it may be helpful to cope better.

Coping option - covid19
Coping Options

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Cope with COVID -19

Coping with COVID -19
Coping with COVID -19

Increase your psychological resilience.
Cope with anxiety and stress related to covid – 19

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Practice Compassionate Communication

Enhance relationships with Compassionate Communication or Nonviolent Communication (NVC). supports change on three interconnected levels; within self, between others, and within groups and social systems. NVC greatest impact has been in personal development, relationships, and social change. Read more

Components of Communication
NVC delineates four components of communication:

  • Observations free of evaluations
  • Feelings straight from the heart
  • Needs, values and longings and
  • Requests expressed clearly in positive action language.
Nonviolent Communication

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication

Key Assumptions and Intentions of NVC

http://capitalnvc.net/main/nvcmodel

Check yourself

http://capitalnvc.net/main/feelings-inventory

http://capitalnvc.net/main/needs-inventory

Counseling outcome – Understand the complex process

Counseling outcome depends on many factors. it can be grouped into four

  1. Event or situation- Why client seeking for help (different needs)
  2. Clients variable (different background)
  3. Therapist variable (different approaches)
  4. Counseling outcome variable (different goals)

Understand how complex process it is…

Solution focused brief therapy in a nutshell

Causes of problems may be extremely complex, their solutions do not necessarily need to be”.

Steve de Shazer

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