Coping skills and Psychological Defenses - An Introduction

The video discusses coping skills and psychological defenses, explaining their differences and providing examples. Coping skills are conscious strategies to manage distress, divided into emotion-focused and problem-focused types. Negative emotion-focused skills provide temporary relief but create more issues, while positive ones are adaptive. Problem-focused skills help solve or minimize problems. Defense mechanisms are unconscious responses, categorized as primitive, less primitive, and mature. Primitive defenses are immature, while mature defenses are healthier responses to stress.

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