Coping Styles: Dealing with Life on Life's Terms
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Coping Styles makes concepts from organizational psychology relevant to peoples’ daily lives. This book describes nine ways we cope with life’s difficulties and the nine ways we learn to help one another.
The styles form a two-dimensional matrix with love and hostility running horizontally and denial and awareness running vertically.
Robert Perrine
Robert is a wayfarer on this journey through life. He was born in Pennsylvania and now resides in California. During his career he has been a civil engineer, computer programmer, professor and a project manager. Throughout this journey Robert has tried to fit all the pieces together into a holistic framework. His goal now is to describe an integrated model of psychology that he found by delving deeply into a study of project management.
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Coping Styles - Robert Perrine
Introduction
Topic 1 – Coping Styles
Topic 2 – Why are there nine?
Topic 3 – Helping
Topic 4 – Opportunity
Bibliography
Introduction
Robert recently found an arrangement of nine coping styles and an explanation for why there are nine. Marlene and Robert want to share this concept with you. We think you will be better able to help yourself and help others when you understand how people cope with life. The nine styles and the pattern that shows how they are arranged are:
Aligned, Changing, Chaotic
Pampered, Tranquil, Hostile
Obligated, Denying, Subjugated
The first major topic in this book is a description of the nine styles. There is a brief description of each of the nine styles and examples of people that we think demonstrate each coping style. We also include brief explanations of how people move in and out of each of these styles. This section comes first so that we can explain the terms we are using.
The second major topic is a description of how these nine styles fit together and why there are nine. This portion of the book is focused on three key approaches to psychology: existential psychology, relational psychology and cognitive-behavioral psychology. This section is important because it explains the relationships between the nine styles.
The third major topic is a description of how these styles shape the ways we help one another. There are eight helping methods and one way in which we help our self. The helping methods are:
Disciple, Learn, Repent
Empower, Center, Intervene
Detach, Revive, Liberate
When superimposed on the coping styles, the helping methods show motion. To learn, for example, is to move from tranquil to change.
The fourth major topic is a small number of illustrations to show how these styles and techniques are used in typical relationships.
One of our goals was to make this book easy to read by breaking it into small sections. To get the most out of this, however, all of these sections need to be linked together. We hope you enjoy reading this book. Please have patience if the whole picture is not clear at first. We believe that the big picture will come together for you as you work your way through this book. We are confident that you will be more successful in getting along with others when you understand how these coping styles and helping methods work.
Robert Perrine with Marlene Weldon
Long Beach, California, USA
December 2009
Topic 1 – Coping Styles
Tranquil
Do you know someone who stays calm when surrounded by chaos? Children are screaming and yet mother knows when to let them play and when to intervene. A customer demand immediate attention and the sales clerk smiles and gives each all the attention they need. We desire peace, serenity and tranquility. We want to be with people who know how to share their inner peace. We spend our nights longing for tranquility. We long for a quiet mountain top where we can sit in peace.
During World War II a Jewish psychologist named Viktor Frankl lived in a series of Nazi death camps. During his internment he learned that tranquility is something we find inside ourselves. He found beauty in the midst of death and survived when millions of others died. He chose tranquility over conflict. Instead of expecting anything to be different, he learned to live the life he had.
When we choose tranquility we find ourselves at peace. We chose serenity and learn to live our life. I have control over me and me alone. I choose to be happy regardless of what is going on around me. Whether you live with a drug addict, suffer at an oppressive job or stub your toe on the doorstep, you choose how you respond to what life throws at you. When someone is rude we can choose to be hurt, choose anger or we can choose to find peace within.
Tranquility occurs when I remain neutral to passion. Tranquility requires that I focus on now rather than the past or the future. Tranquility is something that I find through prayer and meditation. Then I seek to carry that sense of well-being over into my encounters with life. Some call this centering
– which means putting the weight of my thoughts in line with my life. When centered we have our feet firmly planted and are not easily knocked over by life.
We use prayer and meditation to extend tranquility throughout our lives. Still, I have my limits. There are situations that pull me out of tranquility every day if not every hour. I know I can do better. I look at the tranquility that Jesus had during his trial and crucifixion and I see an ideal that I strive to reach.
But there is danger in this as well. I have too often remained tranquil while people did things behind my back. I regret times when I thought the cause was not sufficient for me to give up my tranquility only to later learn that someone had needed my help. Our desire to avoid conflict is what lulls us into accepting increasing levels of abuse from the people who manipulate us. Every once in a while we need to leave tranquility and work on change.
Changing
What have you learned lately that changed your life? Were you seeking that change or was it something unexpected? We go through change all the time. We meet someone and in the process of learning who they are we change ourselves. We pick up skills. We learn habits. And if we think we can stand still we quickly learn that we