PSY1075 Lecture 2: Coping and Competence
19 Feb 2019
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Coping means adapting to challenges - meeting new people, dealing with frustrations, managing fears and stress - and accommodating to new situations. Competence is a cluster of related skills, knowledge and abilities. Learning to cope with life"s challenges builds social, emotional, physical and cognitive competencies. Coping and competence are the foundation of mental health in children and adults. Mental health problems among children are an increasing concern and can include social, emotional, and behavioural aspects. Pathways to poor mental health often start early in life when neural circuity and patterns of interactions are established. Researchers agree that the quality of early relationships is key to mediating young children"s emerging abilities to cope. Behavioural (externalizing) problems: include aggression, hyperactivity and oppositional de ance disorder. Emotional (internalizing) problems: include anxiety, fears and phobias in younger children, and depression and anxiety in school-age children. Is the ability to adapt one"s emotions, behaviours, and attention to cope with the demands of a given situation.
