Coping is the product of a multi-level system, including subsystems (physiological, neurological, emotional, attentional, cognitive, motivational). Coping processes work on many levels and time scales: as a process of adaptation, as part of resilience in development niches, as an episodic process between days and months and as an interactive regulatory process, inducing endocrine responses at the system level, nervous system, as well as the secretion of hormones involved.  The principles from which we must start researching coping mechanisms in a dynamic way focus on development and resilience in contexts of risk and adverse circumstances.