
11/06/2025
What Are Coping Skills?
Coping skills are tactics, strategies, or practices that help you effectively navigate challenging or stressful situations.
When you don’t have the tools or life skills you need to deal with something difficult, it can lead to unhealthy behaviors, unmanageable or intolerable emotional distress, and other negative consequences.
Technically, coping skills can be healthy or unhealthy.
When we talk about the importance of coping skills, we are referring to healthy coping skills.