As the holiday season ramps up, stress can feel unavoidable. University of Iowa psychological and brain sciences professor ...

While it may not solve a problem directly, emotion-focused coping can equip you to address it. Some ways you can practice emotion-focused coping include meditating, journaling, and reframing.

"Avoidance coping" refers to choosing your behavior based on trying to avoid or escape particular thoughts or feelings. It can involve "doing" (e.g., someone who excessively washes their hands to try ...

Coping skills can be thought of as conscious and unconscious ways we hold, navigate, and process the feeling of emotional or mental overwhelm. Coping skills can also be thought of as positive/healthy ...

Your mental health deserves better strategies this year. Let’s leave behind these harmful habits and adopt healthier coping mechanisms for a more fulfilling year ahead. As the new year begins, many of ...

Feeling anxious from time to time is simply part of being a human. But when anxiety is chronic and feels like it has taken control, our quality of life, daily routines, and overall well-being can be ...

Since the early years of this century, it has been commonplace for computerized analyses of athletic statistics to guide a baseball manager’s choice of a pinch hitter, a football coach’s decision to ...

He described it as a period of time following a loss when a person must process or work through their thoughts, memories, and emotions in order to move on with life. Grief, in a nutshell, is an ...