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.
Expanding the Window of Tolerance: 6 PDFs & Worksheets
In 2019, 970 million people worldwide were struggling with stress, anxiety, and mental health issues (World Health Organization, n.d.). Given these soaring numbers, many individuals [...]
Boosting Mental Toughness in Young Athletes & 20 Strategies
Mental toughness is not about being the loudest and brashest athlete on the sports field, pitch, track, or in the pool. Instead, mental toughness is [...]
10 Most Common Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms: A List
Life entails a wide tapestry of different experiences. Some of those are pleasant, some sad, others challenging. Coping mechanisms are the ways we respond to [...]
Healthy Coping Mechanisms: 9 Adaptive Strategies to Try
Have you ever watched in amazement as a family member or acquaintance overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles with strength and courage? Coping with life’s challenges is [...]
Using Coping Cards in Therapy: 13 Examples & Templates
Supporting clients to develop a range of coping skills is a common focus in therapy. Having effective coping tools helps to manage difficult emotions, overcome [...]
24 Best Self-Soothing Techniques and Strategies for Adults
Self-soothing is an emotional regulation strategy used to regain equilibrium after an upsetting event. Most of us are familiar with soothing others when they are [...]
20 Best Anxiety Tools for Helping Your Clients Cope
Anxiety is part of our brain’s hardwired threat response, which has helped humans survive for thousands of years. We have all experienced anxiety at some [...]
Resilience Counseling: 12 Worksheets to Use in Therapy
Trauma is part of life and will be faced by all of us at some point. While it will lead to prolonged distress for some, [...]
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 [...]
