This fact sheet builds understanding around the role of coping strategies in survival and the longer term.
People who experience complex trauma especially from childhood develop a range of coping strategies which are protective at first but often less protective over time.
It is important to understand the role of coping strategies and support people to build their resources to enable them to develop different coping strategies in later life.
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