Question

What are the four coping skills that children use to deal with child abuse? How can you help

children to make their coping skills more positive and constructive rather than negative and
destructive.

Answer 1

Principal components analysis of coping yielded four strategies that were labeled avoidant coping, internalized coping, angry coping, and active/social coping. Each coping strategy was found to be associated with a unique set of abuse characteristics, abuse-related social environment, and symptoms.