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The document discusses different coping strategies for dealing with negative experiences or situations. It describes self-blame, acceptance of things that cannot be changed, focusing thoughts on understanding feelings, positively refocusing on nice things, planning ways to best cope or change a situation, finding positive learning from experiences, putting problems in perspective compared to other worse things, catastrophizing by thinking a situation is much worse than it is, and blaming others rather than taking responsibility.

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CERQ

The document discusses different coping strategies for dealing with negative experiences or situations. It describes self-blame, acceptance of things that cannot be changed, focusing thoughts on understanding feelings, positively refocusing on nice things, planning ways to best cope or change a situation, finding positive learning from experiences, putting problems in perspective compared to other worse things, catastrophizing by thinking a situation is much worse than it is, and blaming others rather than taking responsibility.

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  • Perspective and Attribution
  • Cognitive Coping Strategies
  • Emotional Response Patterns

Self-blame

1. I feel that I am the one to blame for it


2. I feel that I am the one who is responsible for what has happened
3. I think about the mistakes I have made in this matter
4. I think that basically the cause must lie within myself

Acceptance

5. I think that I have to accept that this has happened


6. I think that I have to accept the situation
7. I think that I cannot change anything about it
8. I think that I must learn to live with it

Focus on thought/rumination

9. I often think about how I feel about what I have experienced


10. I am preoccupied with what I think and feel about what I have experienced
11. I want to understand why I feel the way I do about what I have experienced
12. I dwell upon the feelings the situation has evoked in me

Positive refocusing

13. I think of nicer things than what I have experienced


14. I think of pleasant things that have nothing to do with it
15. I think of something nice instead of what has happened
16. I think about pleasant experiences

Refocus on planning

17. I think of what I can do best


18. I think about how I can best cope with the situation
19. I think about how to change the situation
20. I think about a plan of what I can do best

Positive reappraisal

21. I think I can learn something from the situation


22. I think that I can become a stronger person as a result of what has happened
23. I think that the situation also has its positive sides
24. I look for the positive sides to the matter

Putting into perspective

25. I think that it all could have been much worse


26. I think that other people go through much worse experiences
27. I think that it hasn’t been too bad compared to other things
28. I tell myself that there are worse things in life

Catastrophizing
29. I often think that what I have experienced is much worse than what others have experienced
30. I keep thinking about how terrible it is what I have experienced
31. I often think that what I have experienced is the worst that can happen to a person
32. I continually think how horrible the situation has been

Blaming others

33. I feel that others are to blame for it


34. I feel that others are responsible for what has happened
35. I think about the mistakes others have made in this matter
36. I feel that basically the cause lies with others

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