The concept of "coping" is central to H.V.N., based on its belief that people feel better not when their voices are extinguished but when the person hearing voices learns to listen to his hallucinations without anguish.
Baylies (2002) and Rugalema (2000) have, however, questioned the applicability of the concept of coping in resource-constrained settings.
When addressing the concept of coping for assessment, intervention or research purposes, it should be kept in mind that coping is a very dynamic concept.
From the negative correlation it may be concluded that the concept of coping through expressing one's emotions is distinct from psychological distress.
The concept of coping capacity, grounded in a 'five capitals' model of resource availability (Porritt 2006), reflects the resources, both tangible and societal, available to help individuals within society cope with the impacts of climate and socio-economic change.
The behavior measure for the concept of coping uses the same measurement logic as the D-SMART measure of coping [ 6], assessing the consequences of coping (i.e., amount of diabetes-related frustration and worry about future health) rather than coping behavior per se.
Some commentators have challenged the usefulness of the concept of "coping strategies" in the context of HIV and AIDS, as this may imply that people do cope with the situation and will ultimately recover from a transitory change to their livelihoods (Rugalema, 2000).
Psychological group sessions focused on recommendations of lifestyle for headache sufferers, and discussion of individual headache concepts, individual styles of coping with headache, avoidance of headache triggers and stress management.
Stakeholder-defined storylines are combined with outputs from an integrated bio-physical modelling platform in a manner that is replicable and transferable, and allows the concepts of capitals, coping capacity and stakeholder-derived scenarios to be included within a quantitative system.
Some cross-sectional studies have been done with adolescents (albeit sometimes using different coping concepts), but no previous studies have longitudinally examined the effect of coping strategy on problem behavior in a sample of adolescent COPMI.
