[Coping: meanings, interference in the health-disease process and relevance to nursing]. / Coping: significados, interferência no processo saúde-doença e relevância para a enfermagem.

This article is a bibliographic review about Coping in a cognitive-interactionist model. The goal is to analyse this psychological referencial within the health-illness process and stress its importance and the possible ways to be worked by nurses, understanding that it can be an important model which direct them in the development of their essistencial works.