| Family of strategies | Functional strategy | Dysfunctional strategy |
| Situation selection | - Functional confrontation | - Dysfunctional avoidance - Procrastination |
| Situation modification | - Direct modification - Indirect modification | - Learned helplessness |
| Attentional deployment | - Positive distraction | - Negative distraction - Rumination |
| Cognitive change | - Positive reappraisal - Acceptance | - Catastrophizing - Blaming others |
| Response modulation | - Relaxation | - Emotion deletion |
| Emotion expression | - Social sharing | - Unsuitable expression - Verbal aggression - Social withdrawal |