If we could go back in time and ask early Native Americans and European immigrants how they coped with their world I am sure we would get the same replies from all of them. North America is a gigantic territory, and there are dangers lurking around every corner. The time of the early settlers had more dangers than we can imagine. The Native Americans and Europeans had to cope with hunger and disease while attempting to set up a government that would get everyone involved, and they had to be sure to please God at the same time. This was a very stressful time for many, and it reflects in this period of American literature. Disease was a major setback for the Native Americans and Europeans. The Europeans brought many diseases to North America such as smallpox. The Native Americans did not have a strong enough immune system for these diseases and many of them died as a result. In A Journey Through Texas many Native Americans became sick while travelling with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. According to Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca the Native Americans did not know how to deal with the disease. The epidemic in the camp was so bad that Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca writes, “All over the country, where it was known, they became so afraid that it seemed as if the mere sight of us would kill them.” It seems as if the Native Americans did not know how to cope with the disease. They thought the Europeans were causing it, and so all the Native Americans thought to do was to ask them to not be angry anymore and to stop the disease. The early Native Americans did not know how to cope with the European’s diseases, and the deaths from these diseases would be a cause of tension between Native Americans and Europeans. European disease was mostly caused by... ... middle of paper ... ...t their recompense is with the Lord.” The Europeans used religion as a motivator, and the Native Americans used religion as an escape. These are both excellent ways to cope with the world around you, and they were very effective during this time. If we could go back in time and ask early Native Americans and European immigrants how they coped with their world I am sure we would get the same replies from all of them. Religion, accepting aid from others, and forming a government that gets the people involved are both ways that the Native Americans and Europeans coped with their world. These two groups were living in the moment, and looking back there are things each group wishes they could change. However, what’s done is done, and we can’t rewrite history. The Native Americans and Europeans coped the best they could with what they had, and they made the best of it.
The article Assessing Coping Strategies: A Theoretically Based Approach by Carver, Scheier & Weintraub proposes that they are distinct styles of coping: problem-solving coping, emotion-focused coping, and several other coping styles that were deemed to be less useful such as mental disengagement and venting of emotions. After taking and scoring the COPE scale, I discovered that my preferred styles of coping includes planning, self-distraction, active coping, and use of emotional support. This does
Coping Mechanisms Everyone has to deal with struggles during their everyday life. Some people’s problems are more serious than others, and the way that people deal with their problems varies. Everybody has a coping mechanism, something they can use to make the struggle that they’re going through easier, but they’re usually different. Some people drink, some people smoke, some people pretend there is no problem. There are healthy and unhealthy coping mechanisms, and people will vary the one they
Introduction According to the International Diabetes Foundation, India has the most number of individuals suffering from diabetes than any other country in the world as of 2013. The disease affects more than 7.1% of India’s adult population. The estimate of people dying of diabetes every year, in India, stands at 1 million. The prevalence of diabetes is rising as a result of ageing population and unhealthy lifestyles. In developing countries such as India, long-term health conditions such as diabetes
The word "stress" technically refers only to how our body reacts to stressors, different external inputs. Many stressors are not inherently stressful. There are conscious and unconscious things that occur in our inner world that determine whether a stressor in the external world will trigger our stress response, called mediating responses and moderating factors. (1) Some stress is good for us and motivates us. But signs that stress has gone too far include emotional distress, sleep disturbances
The Success Rate of Violence in Coping Humans use many different types of coping mechanisms when in tough situations and environments. William Golding’s, Lord of the Flies, demonstrates several of these and their ultimate outcomes. From the Lord of the Flies one can draw that the more cruel and savage a person is betters their likelihood of survival in a harsh environment or world. This is exemplified through Simon and his non-violent acts, Piggy who vacillates his morals, and Jack who fully embraces
so much damage - property, money, lives - in order for one to recover, the system of coping is required. There are two different approaches of coping as defined by Richard S. Lazarus – one that emphasizes style—treating coping as a personality trait—and the other that emphasizes processes—efforts to manage stress that change over time and are shaped by the adaptive context that it is generated (Lazarus 234). Coping has been around for quite some time, though it’s only recently (during the 1960s and
the person is optimistic, there are two different methods of coping: problem-focused and emotion-focused. Problem-focused coping is a coping strategy in which a person problem solves and tackles challenges head-on. If someone who lost their job were to engage in problem-focused coping, he or she would analyze their mistakes and formulate a plan to find and keep a new job. Contrary to problem-focused coping, emotion-focused coping is a coping strategy that features a positive outlook on feelings or situations
“Emotional and psychological trauma is the result of extraordinarily stressful events that shatter your sense of security, making you feel helpless in a dangerous world,”( Lawrence Robinson, Melinda Smith, and Jeanne Segal). The three steps to overcome is understanding, coping, and healing (Dania Vanessa). Each of
ethnic groups are nearly twice more likely to be in this 47% than any other ethnicity (Taylor, 2015). When an individual with or without a mental health disorder is not coping with caring for themselves, a mental health crisis may occur. A mental health crisis is an opportunity to help promote change as the individual is not coping with their current situation and therefore help and support is needed. Working with individuals during a mental health crisis is becoming a lot more common and therefore
However, music did not always function successfully for Szpilman as a coping mechanism. In The Pianist, the emotional healing powers of music do not lie within music’s ability to escape into alternate, more desirable realities as a means of coping with a stressful situation. Rather, it is music’s ability to express emotions and reflect on complex experiences in order to begin to process them, which successfully function as coping mechanisms for Szpilman, allowing him to free his mind of burdensome
nursing students are severe enough to cause some mental health problems such as depression and anxiety (Leodoro, 2013). Going through a rather stressful education, numerous nursing students have utilized several coping strategies in times past, these includes self- distraction, active coping, denial, substance use and religion among others (Seyedfatemi et al, 2007; Sheu et al, 2002). Research
Athletic Coping Skills and Personality Differences among College Students Young athletes account for about 4 million injuries a year in the U.S. according to an article published in the Los Angeles Times (2010). US Today reported that approximately 1.35 million student athletes’ injuries were severe enough to send them to the hospital emergency department. Athletic injuries range from the simple ankle strains and sprains to more serious injuries such as: fractures, contusions, abrasions, and even
physical condition and behaviors that promote health, such as exercise and eating well. On the other side, there is a tendency to view the world through psychological processes, such as; expectations, point of view (negative or positive) and belief systems. Unfortunately, when Joe is faced with stressors in life he falls back on an unhealthy interpretation of the world. He is interpreting his present daily struggles with the eyes of child that was left on his own to raise three children. His interpretation
is difficult to identify or to understand. Psychologists use a mixture of six types of coping strategies: belief, affect, social, imagination, cognitive, and physiological. The film “Pan’s Labyrinth” by Guillermo del Toro narrates the story of Ofelia, who is a bookish eleven-year-old girl that loves fairy tales. She and her pregnant sick mother, Carmen, arrive at her heartless
about the causes of school shootings. Causes like bullying, mental illness, childhood maltreatment have been discussed as some of the causes. “Working to increase coping skills and self-esteem in people would decrease these occurrences,” Justin Nutt, SJS Staff Writer, explains. The main cause of school shootings is lack of coping skills and low self esteem. If people learned how to cope with their emotions and had higher self esteem, there would not be as much anger and sadness in the population