QUESTION

Coping refers to efforts to manage stress. Coping can be adaptive or maladaptive. Adaptive coping strategies generally involve confronting problems directly, recognizing and changing unhealthy emotional reactions, making reasonably realistic appraisals of problems, and trying to prevent adverse effects on the body. Maladaptive coping comprises using alcohol or drugs to escape problems. Some researchers believe that people have characteristic ways of coping, even in different sorts of situations. Other researchers believe that people utilizes different coping styles in different situations and that people's ways of coping change over time

Identify and describe some of the adaptive coping strategies, you believe can help people combat the effect of stress.