When faced with stress, depression, and anxiety, everyone needs help to COPE.

Over 100,000 children, teens, and young adults have received COPE to date!

Research supported Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-based Programs for:

Primary Care Practices

Counseling Practices

Primary and Secondary Schools

School-Based Health Clinics

After Schools Programs

Universities

Healthcare Systems

Chronic Care Clinics

Children

Teens

Young Adults

Adults

Pregnant Women

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COPE is evidence-based with over 25 Years of Research

More than 20 studies over 25 years support that COPE reduces anxiety, depression, and stress as well as improves self-esteem, healthy behaviors, and academic performance.

COPE teach how to turn unhelpful or negative thoughts into positive ones to lessen negative emotions and empower healthy behaviors.

Who COPE Helps!

Children (ages 7 to 11)

Teens (ages 11 to 18)

Young Adults (ages 18 to 24)

Adults (25+)

Pregnant Women

Who Can Deliver COPE

Health Care Practitioners (Physicians, NPs, PAs)

Teachers in K-12 Schools

School Nurses

Social Workers

Mental Health Professionals

University Faculty & Staff

Occupational Therapists

Our COPE Programs

7-Session Program

The evidence-based 7-session manual-based instructor-delivered program provides support for children, teens, and young adults using brief, easy-to-follow sessions, complete with skills-building activities, that convey that there is hope for change and that both depression and anxiety can be improved by learning the skills taught in COPE.

15-Session Program

The evidence-based 15-session COPE Healthy Lifestyles TEEN (Thinking, Emotions, Exercise, and Nutrition) manual-based program builds upon the skills learned in the 7-session Teen Program by including sessions on healthy nutrition and physical activity, helping teens to engage in healthy lifestyle behaviors, improve their self-esteem and academic performance, cope with stress, and lessen anxiety and depressive symptoms.

7-Session Online Teen Program

The Teen (12-18) online educational skills-building program is self-delivered without the need for an instructor. The online teen self-delivered 7-session program is a self-help, cognitive-behavioral skills-building educational intervention program that teaches the same concepts and skills as the 7-session manual-based teen program, but in an online, self-delivered instructor-free format.

COPE Program Creator and Founder of COPE2Thrive

Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN

Dr. Melnyk is a nationally/internationally recognized author, practitioner, researcher, and expert in child and adolescent health, evidence-based practice, and intervention research. Bern has over 460 publications, including a book entitled A Practical Guide to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Screening, Early Intervention, and Health Promotion (3rd edition) (2022). New York, NY: Springer Publishing and NAPNAP.

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