Emotion-Focused Coping Case Study
Coping, involves a basic division between problem-focused coping on the one hand and emotion-focused coping on the other. Problem-focused coping is directed at altering the problem causing the distress. It involves efforts to change the troubled person–environment relationship. Emotion-focused coping they define as coping that is directed at regulating the emotional response to the problem. Emotion-focused coping is aimed at reducing or managing the distress that is associated with, or caused by, the situation.
Emotion-focused coping can be grouped into various domains. One domain involves attempts at lessening emotional distress, and includes strategies such as avoidance, minimizing (importance), seeking to find positive value in negative events, distancing oneself …show more content…
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The individuals classified with mental disorder in the two interviews are selected on the basis of having two distinct illnesses; one manifested since childhood, the other much later. The names have been altered to maintain privacy.
Interview 1:
Name: Ali
Description as per my knowledge (Interview Pending):
He is one of those children born in every generation whose brain never develops. Born a beautifully formed baby, today Ali looks like any normal 15-year-old, though his arm and leg muscles are slightly flabby from disuse. Brown curls twist over his head. His sole outward sign of feeble-mindedness is the vague shadow of a smile that flickers continually across his face. He is the victim of one of nature's accidents.
This illness has a biological component. It’s not the result of bad parenting. Many people feel anger at the circumstances and even at the person who has been diagnosed. And though it may not be logical, parents often engage in some degree of self-blame. Such feelings of shame and anger may also go hand-in-hand with feelings of guilt. Grief is also common.
Interview 2:
Name: Mohid
Description as per my knowledge (Interview
Emotion-focused coping can be grouped into various domains. One domain involves attempts at lessening emotional distress, and includes strategies such as avoidance, minimizing (importance), seeking to find positive value in negative events, distancing oneself …show more content…
Additional Comments/fav memory (optional)
The individuals classified with mental disorder in the two interviews are selected on the basis of having two distinct illnesses; one manifested since childhood, the other much later. The names have been altered to maintain privacy.
Interview 1:
Name: Ali
Description as per my knowledge (Interview Pending):
He is one of those children born in every generation whose brain never develops. Born a beautifully formed baby, today Ali looks like any normal 15-year-old, though his arm and leg muscles are slightly flabby from disuse. Brown curls twist over his head. His sole outward sign of feeble-mindedness is the vague shadow of a smile that flickers continually across his face. He is the victim of one of nature's accidents.
This illness has a biological component. It’s not the result of bad parenting. Many people feel anger at the circumstances and even at the person who has been diagnosed. And though it may not be logical, parents often engage in some degree of self-blame. Such feelings of shame and anger may also go hand-in-hand with feelings of guilt. Grief is also common.
Interview 2:
Name: Mohid
Description as per my knowledge (Interview