Archive for January 2022
Marriage Counseling And Adaptive Coping Strategies
Marriage counseling can help teach couples adaptive coping strategies to manage stress both in their relationship and individually. Coping strategies are mechanisms we employ to deal with stress, and they can be either adaptive or maladaptive. As we discussed in our previous blog, maladaptive coping mechanisms are those that, while they may make you feel…
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Individual counseling can help to identify and correct maladaptive coping mechanisms. Maladaptive coping mechanisms are strategies that we employ, whether consciously or not, to avoid pain, anxiety, or depression, but that ultimately just delay the inevitable and often only make things worse. These strategies may include but are not limited to procrastination, isolation, substance abuse,…
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