As we go through life, we can resist temptation, exercise to deal with depression, reinterpret loss, talk ourselves through challenges, avoid confronting an opponent, seek help, etc. Coping with an adversity includes innumerous ways of dealing with diverse person-environment transactions. Thus, coping does not represent a homogeneous concept. Instead, it is a diffuse umbrella term. Coping can be described in terms of strategies, tactics, responses, cognitions, or behavior. Actual coping is a phenomenon that can be noticed either by introspection or by observation, and it includes internal events as well as overt actions. May be, this broad field determinates that over 20,000 articles on stress and coping processes have been published in the two decades; Given the magnitude of this literature, it is impossible to provide a full review. However, there is briefly outlined the different theoretical and methodological approaches to coping, is described different attempt of coping classification and is given a brief survey of coping instruments.