Question

Jennifer was just diagnosed with cancer. She has started drinking heavily and keeps rescheduling doctors' appointments to later and later dates. Jennifer is engaging in _____ coping.

Answer 1

Avoidance Coping

Explanation:

• Avoidance coping includes attempting to maintain a strategic distance from stressors as opposed to managing them.
• It might appear that keeping away from pressure is an incredible method to feel less pushed, yet this isn't really the situation; regularly, we have to manage things so we either experience less pressure or feel less worried by what we experience without maintaining a strategic distance from the issue completely. (That is the reason we take a stab at "stress the board" instead of "stress evasion"— we can't generally maintain a strategic distance from pressure, however, we can oversee it with compelling adapting strategies).  
• Avoidance coping (or avoidant coping) is viewed as maladaptive, or undesirable since it regularly intensifies worry without helping us manage the things that are focusing on us.  Procrastination, for instance, is an evasion method for dealing with stress: we feel pushed when we consider what we need to do, so we abstain from doing it and attempt to abstain from contemplating.