Concept

Community Interventions Personal-Level Interventions, and Coping

  • Many researchers over the years have studied both community and personal level psychological interventions - often, community level interventions are viewed as broad and wide ranging while personal level interventions focus more on the day to day processes of individuals
  • Coping strategies have been studied to see their effectiveness in reducing physical distress, cognitive distortions, and emotional stress
  • It is essential to remember that coping is sequential and dynamic: that is, it changes as quickly as lived circumstances do
  • The lens of temporality has gained popularity due to increasing understanding that since stressful life experiences vary in duration and timing, so do the coping strategies used to respond to them

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Updated 2022-11-05

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Disability Studies