Coping and Life Skills

Flashcards for reviewing coping mechanisms, cultural competency, loss, and bereavement.

Coping in Everyday Life

Each day has various degrees of choices that should be made; ways of coping vary between avoiding, distracting, confronting, planning, or reinterpreting.

Buddhism (Coping)

Teaches coping by cultivating detachment, as suffering results from desire.

Taoism (Coping)

Teaches coping by adapting to the environment.

Confucian Tradition (Coping)

Teaches coping through diligent learning and acquiring righteousness to handle unforeseen circumstances.

Japanese Culture (Coping)

Cultivates indirect confrontation using cues to communicate feelings.

Culture

Differences stemming from genetic factors and environmental influences, involving complex interaction between personality and cultural values/norms.

Cultural Destructiveness

Racism, maintaining stereotypes, unfair hiring practices.

Cultural Incapacity

Forced assimilation, subjugation, rights and privileges for dominant groups only.

Cultural Blindness

Differences ignored, 'treat everyone the same,' only meet needs of dominant groups.

Cultural Pre-Competence

Explore cultural issues, are committed, assess needs of organization and individuals.

Cultural Competence

Recognize individual & cultural differences, seek advice from diverse groups, hire culturally unbiased staff.

Cultural Proficiency

Implement changes to improve services based upon cultural needs.

Loss (Examples)

Breaking up of a relationship/friendship, divorce, losing a limb/bodily function/job, moving out of the family home.

Bereavement

To get over the loss of deceased loved ones and carry on with their lives; to accept the reality of their loss and adapt to a world without them.

Elements of Bereavement

Denial, isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.

Suggestions for Bereavement

suggestions of bereavement includes accept the turmoil, there is no rush, avoid 'should' and 'oughts', write down your experiences, consider writing a letter or two, coach those close to you how to help you, go for walks, distract yourself regularly, go where you fear to go, expect anniversary sadness, nurture yourself.