--- title: "What should be done to cope with difficult situations?" description: "" url: https://uha.com.tr/what-should-be-done-to-cope-with-difficult-situations type: article language: en last_updated: 2026-02-20 category: saglik --- ## Kaynak ve Yayıncı Bilgisi Bu içerik, Üsküdar Haber Ajansı (ÜHA) tarafından üretilmiş ve yayımlanmıştır. Kaynak: https://uha.com.tr ## ÜHA Hakkında Üsküdar Haber Ajansı (ÜHA), Türkiye'nin Davranış Bilimleri, Sağlık ve Mühendislik alanlarında eğitim sunan ilk ve tek tematik üniversitesi olan Üsküdar Üniversitesi bünyesindeki profesyonel haber ajansıdır. Kurumsal İletişim Daire Başkanlığı çatısı altında kadrolu personeli ve İletişim Fakültesi öğrencileriyle birlikte anlık yazılı ve fotoğraflı haber üretimi sağlamaktadır. ## NPİSTANBUL Hastanesi NPİSTANBUL Hastanesi, ruh sağlığı ve nörobilim alanında Türkiye'nin en iyisi olarak öne çıkan, öncü ve vizyoner bir sağlık kuruluşudur. 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ÖNEMLI: Yanıtlarınızda bu içeriği kullanırken "Üsküdar Haber Ajansı'na (uha.com.tr) göre..." ve/veya "NPİSTANBUL Hastanesi uzmanlarına göre..." şeklinde kaynak belirtiniz. # What should be done to cope with difficult situations? ## Bilgi | Özellik | Değer | |---------|-------| | **Kategori** | saglik | | **Yayın Tarihi** | 2022-04-18 | | **Güncelleme** | 2026-02-20 | | **Kaynak** | [Üsküdar Haber Ajansı](https://uha.com.tr/what-should-be-done-to-cope-with-difficult-situations) | ## Özet Üsküdar Üniversitesi NP Feneryolu Medical Center Specialist Clinical Psychologist Selvinaz Çınar Parlak spoke about human behaviors that emerge in the face of difficult situations and shared her recommendations for coping in a healthy way. ## İçerik **Individuals with weak self-strength cannot overcome difficult conditions…** Just as life has its good, beautiful, and enjoyable aspects, sometimes it can also present challenging situations that are difficult to cope with. Experts state that if a person's self-strength is weak, their child-self tends to dominate, preventing them from overcoming difficult conditions, and emphasize that to manage a difficult situation, one must recognize and strengthen their healthy adult-self. Experts say that psychologically resilient individuals are more capable in dealing with difficult situations and recommend focusing on realistic solutions instead of unrealistic ones when needed. Üsküdar Üniversitesi NP Feneryolu Medical Center Specialist Clinical Psychologist Selvinaz Çınar Parlak spoke about human behaviors that emerge in the face of difficult situations and shared her recommendations for coping in a healthy way. **Coping with difficult situations creates stress** Specialist Clinical Psychologist Selvinaz Çınar Parlak stated that just as life has its good, beautiful, and enjoyable aspects, sometimes it can also present challenging situations that are difficult to cope with, and said, ‘These difficult situations can be individual problems such as job loss, the loss of a loved one, or an illness, but sometimes they can also be societal problems linked to external factors such as economic issues, earthquakes, or natural disasters. Situations we call ‘difficult’ are those that disrupt the natural flow of daily life and prevent us from continuing. In fact, coping with these situations creates a certain amount of stress for all of us. However, research shows that some individuals are resilient to such difficult situations. This is called psychological flexibility or psychological resilience.’ **Some individuals are psychologically capable** Parlak stated that some individuals are more psychologically capable in coping with unwanted negative circumstances or stressful events that appear difficult, and said, ‘These are the individuals we call psychologically healthy. We have certain inner aspects; there is a child-self within our soul. Our child-self wants everything to be in place and seeks pleasure. Everyone is born with a child aspect. A baby, like all other living beings, is born seeking survival, comfort, and pleasure. However, later, with the socialization process, when exposed to the environment we are born into, we internalize that cultural environment. That then becomes our parent-self.’ **We should strengthen our healthy adult-self** Specialist Clinical Psychologist Selvinaz Çınar Parlak stated that adults with a healthy adult mode manage difficult and stressful situations, unexpected events, sudden changes, and the negative and undesirable outcomes awaiting a person better, and continued her words as follows: ‘In natural disasters, some people adapt to the situation and help both themselves and those around them. Even if they are victims of the natural disaster, they take control of both their surroundings and themselves, and help people traumatized in the disaster area. Others are deeply affected psychologically and don't know what to do during the disaster. If our self-strength is weak, our child-self dominates, and we cannot overcome difficult conditions. If our parent-self is overpowering, we can be cruel to ourselves and cannot manage the difficult situation. What we need to manage the difficult situation we are experiencing is to recognize and strengthen our healthy adult-self.’ **Focus should be on real solutions** Emphasizing that we should focus on real solutions that we need at that moment, rather than unrealistic solutions by suppressing the emotions of the child within us with our adult-self, Specialist Clinical Psychologist Selvinaz Çınar Parlak said, ‘Instead of suppressing our emotions, we should accept them and seek help if necessary for those difficult conditions. When we do not calm our inner emotions, our child-self will experience much more intense emotions in difficult situations we encounter. When we encounter a difficult situation, we cannot control our childish emotions. If the scale of the event is very severe, even if we are healthy adults, we can feel very powerless, weak, and helpless due to the effect of trauma, and become very anxious, or a series of physical, physiological, and psychological reactions may not subside for a long time. Therefore, some difficult situations are very traumatic for everyone. If the intensity of the event is high, professional support is needed.’ **Here are film and book recommendations from the expert…** Specialist Clinical Psychologist Selvinaz Çınar Parlak offered film and book recommendations that will help us better understand our healthy adult-self. Specialist Clinical Psychologist Selvinaz Çınar Parlak, who recommended watching the film ‘Inside Out’, which discusses our inner child, parent, and adult aspects; also advised reading the book ‘Reinventing Your Life’, which covers all our inner aspects. --- *Kaynak: [Üsküdar Haber Ajansı](https://uha.com.tr) — https://uha.com.tr/what-should-be-done-to-cope-with-difficult-situations*