Form groups of three or four people, and appoint one member as the spokesperson who will communicate your conclusions to the rest of the class.
1. Take a few minutes to think about the emotion-focused ways of coping that you rely on to cope with stressful feelings and emotions.
2. Take turns describing your emotion-focused ways of coping, and have the spokesperson list them on a piece of paper.
3. Now go through the list and determine as a group to what extent each way of coping is likely to be effective/functional or ineffective/dysfunctional.
4. As a group, come up with a list of effective emotion-focused coping strategies.