Coping Strategies Inventory

Identify short-term coping habits that sabotage your wellness goals and replace them with evidence-based strategies you can sustain.

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When to Use This Tool

A client relying on coping strategies that work short-term but undermine their goals

Taking inventory of what helps versus what just numbs

Building awareness of default responses to stress before trying to change them

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Tool Classification

Domain

Wellness

Type

Worksheet

Phase

Discovery Reflection

Details

15 min Mid session As-needed

Topics

Resilience Emotions Habits

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1 Executive whose coping behaviors are being mistaken for high performance

Context

A director of product management is described by his peers as 'relentless' and by his manager as 'the hardest working person on the leadership team.' In coaching he describes coping with pressure through working longer, taking on more, and refusing to let any deliverable fall short of excellent. These behaviors are producing results — and also producing exhaustion, increasing irritability, and a sense that he cannot stop even when the acute pressure passes. He sees these behaviors as discipline rather than coping.

How to Introduce

Frame this as a categorization exercise, not an intervention. 'We're going to sort the ways you respond to pressure into...

2 Leader navigating a sustained organizational crisis who has run out of coping capacity 🔒

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