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herramienta de un afrontamiento saludable

English translation: a healthy coping tool

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Spanish term or phrase:	herramienta de un afrontamiento saludable
English translation:	a healthy coping tool
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11:13 Nov 2, 2009

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Spanish term or phrase: herramienta de un afrontamiento saludable

En un informe posterior a la adopción, en referencia a los orígenes del niño, el psicólogo comenta:

Los padres y la familia de Jack siguen repestando la historia previa de éste. En su compromiso con la necesidad de Jack de construir su identidad y dotarle de información como herramienta de un afrontamiento saludable a sus nuevas situaciones, responden a las preguntas de acuerdo a su nivel evolutivo, no ocultándose sus orígenes.

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(as) a healthy coping tool

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Your option works but this suggestion provides a way of translating the source term, retaining the source structure + use of word "herramienta" (tool).

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(as) a healthy coping tool

Julie Waddington

4 +1

tool to help him come to terms/therapeutic tool

la acequiera

the necessary strength/tools/ability to embrace new challenges/changes

hjs45

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the necessary strength/tools/ability to embrace new challenges/changes

Explanation:
I think "embrace" in the sense of "to take or receive gladly or eagerly; accept willingly: to embrace an idea" could work here, you could always add "willingly" to emphasize.

Another option: "to confront head-on".

hjs45
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peer agreement (net): +4

(as) a healthy coping tool

Explanation:
Your option works but this suggestion provides a way of translating the source term, retaining the source structure + use of word "herramienta" (tool).

Julie Waddington
Spain
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English
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22 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

tool to help him come to terms/therapeutic tool

Explanation:
I think "come to terms" works well here, as it´s about readjustment. I would translate it like this: "provide him with a tool to help him to come to terms with his situation in a healthy way" or even "provide him with a therapeutic tool to come to terms with his situation" and omit the "in a healthy way"

http://album-project.com/text.htm Nineteen years ago when he was fifteen he underwent surgery for spinal scoliosis. His father bought a Polaroid Spectra® and gave it to Isaac as a tool to help him come to terms with the confusion of the hospital and the changes in his back.

http://www.romapavilion.org/artists/OMARA.htm Mara Oláh started painting at the age of 43, after her mother’s death. Parallel with her autobiography, she was painting major traumas in her life, in chronological order, using art as a therapeutic tool to come to terms with, and overcome, humiliation, the grief felt over losing her mother, the anguish of alienation from her daughter, the physical pain of her cancer.

la acequiera
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