Do you feel at a loss, taking on the role of family caregiver in addition to your other responsibilities and challenges? It helps to be in control by having adaptive coping tools at your disposal. To face and transform the challenges, consciously self monitor with self awareness by applying the action words of the 3-A Coping Framework: Acknowledge, Assess, Assist. An underlying assumption in applying these 3-A action words is that wherever there is adversity, there is loss.