Resilience: Reflection 3.2: Active and Avoidant Coping

Take a minute to reflect on a specific stressor in your life to which you often demonstrate an avoidant coping strategy. Do you have one in mind?

When you face this stressor, please rank the following strategies based on how often you use them when you don’t want to deal with it. Drag and drop the strategies to reorder them, with your most used strategy at the top and your least used strategy at the bottom. If you have an alternative strategy that is not listed, feel free to include “Other” and describe this strategy in the next question space.

If you ranked an “other” option in your top 3 from the previous question, please describe the strategy here.

Name a small step you could take which would move you toward an active coping strategy and away from an avoidant strategy that you would be willing to try. Select all that may apply – there are no correct or incorrect answers.

Next time I encounter this stressor, I will try to…