Manual for the Children's Coping Strategies Checklist

CHILDREN’S COPING STRATEGIES CHECKLIST-REVISION 1 (CCSC-R1)
Combining subscales used in New Beginnings (NB) & Divorce Adjustment Project (DAP) 1
Instructions
Sometimes kids have problems or feel upset about things. When this happens, they may do different
things to solve the problem or to make themselves feel better. For each item below, choose the answer
that BEST describes how often you usually did this to solve your problems or make yourself feel better
during the past month. There are no right or wrong answers, just indicate how often YOU USUALLY
did each thing in order to solve your problems or make yourself feel better during the past month (or
since [marker event]). 2
Subscale
Item
No.
Question/Response Format
CDM 1. When you had problems in the past month, you thought about what you
could do before you did something.
POS
REP
SUPF
AVA
DPS
SUPA
OPT
DA
POS
WISH
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
Never Sometimes Often Most of the time
1 2 3 4
You tried to notice or think about only the good things in your life.
You tried to ignore it.
You told people how you felt about the problem.
You tried to stay away from the problem.
You did something to make things better.
You talked to someone who could help you figure out what to do.
You told yourself that things would get better.
You listened to music.
You reminded yourself that you are better off than a lot of other kids.
When you had problems in the past month, you daydreamed that everything
was okay.