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Question 1
Maricella is getting overwhelmed at work. Her supervisor continues to give her more and more projects because she does very good work, but doesn’t realize that he has given her too much to do at one time. Maricella schedules a meeting, explains how overloaded she has become, and gets her supervisor to reassign 20% of the projects to other workers to reduce her stress. Maricella has used blank coping to deal with her situation.
Question 2
Sharrod has been very upset because his 14-year-old cat had to be put to sleep due to illness. He decides to take a few days off from work so that he can deal with his feelings, and then when he is in a better state of mind return to work. Sharrod is using blank coping since he can do nothing about the situation that caused his stress.
Question 3
Which of the following is the most accurate statement with regard to the different types of coping strategies?
Question 4
Your Take! Under what circumstances would using emotion-focused or problem-focused coping be more advantageous? Can you think of ways in which either might make problems worse?