Sentence examples for coping devices from inspiring English sources

Policymakers are, quite sensibly, trying to add to the coping devices available to us for dealing with this problem.

As coping devices go, mythmaking is a bit more sophisticated than vodka or pills, if less conscious.

Some procrastination problems are so common and socially significant that so-called "off-the-shelf," socially-engineered coping devices seem appropriate.

To admit you can't, or might not be able to, is hard, and denial and magical thinking are underrated human coping devices in response to helplessness and fear.

A coping device had been born and reborn.

Given the dearth of viable options, conference attendees and speakers mused that their clients might instead resort to a coping device that lawyers normally frown upon: legal self-help.

Art is also a coping device for those grappling with the effects of torture.

In a 1982 study, the psychologist Graham Tyson found that people who consult astrologers did so in response to stressors, writing, "Under conditions of high stress, the individual is prepared to use astrology as a coping device, even though under low-stress conditions he does not believe in it".

I view denial as a positive and productive coping device.

For some of its adherents, steampunk also offers a metaphoric coping device.

There's nothing unsteady about the queen's foil, Twin Glimmer, who is her secret child, underling, invention and all-around coping device.