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Manage Stress: Quick Guide to Healthy Living

Learning how to manage stress can help prevent serious health problems such as heart disease, depression, and high blood pressure.... Details >

National Health Information Center, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Caregiver Stress

Are you caring for an older or disabled relative or friend? This fact sheet answers questions you may have about coping with the daily stress associated with this occupation.... Details >

National Women's Health Information Center, Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

After a Disaster: Self-Care Tips for Dealing with Stress

This fact sheet covers things to remember when trying to understand disaster events, signs that adults need stress management assistance, and ways to ease stress.... Details >

Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Combating Parental Stress

Parents today are working longer hours and commuting greater distances to and from work. Their days don't slow down when they get home. Kids' after-school schedules can be jam-packed, making life busy... Details >

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Families Can Help Children Cope with Fear and Anxiety  External Link

Whether tragic events touch your family personally or are brought into your home via newspapers and television, you can help children cope with the anxiety that violence, death and disasters can cause... Details >

SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center, Center for Mental Health Services

Fight Stress With Healthy Habits  External Link

Healthy habits can protect you from the harmful effects of stress. This article provides 10 positive healthy habits you may want to develop, including talk with family and friends, accept the things y... Details >

American Heart Association  External Link

Got Butterflies? Tongue-Tied? Pounding Headache?

Learn what short-term and long-term stress does to your body and how to cope with it.... Details >

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Helping Children Cope with Holiday Stress: Tips for Parents and Families  External Link

For many children, the holidays are happy, fun and exciting times. The holidays can also be a difficult time for children who have lost a parent, sibling, or close relative. This page provides tips fo... Details >

American Psychiatric Association  External Link

How Can I Manage Stress?  External Link

You can have a healthier heart when you make changes in your lifestyle. Managing your emotions better may help, because some people respond to certain situations in ways that can cause health problems... Details >

American Heart Association  External Link

Job Stress Network  External Link

Links to information regarding work strain and job stress. Users can link to sites and information on risk factors, health outcomes, current events, references, and a searchable database.... Details >

Job Stress Network, Center for Social Epidemiology  External Link

Managing the Stress of Caregiving  External Link

Information for the caregiver about managing caregiver stress. This fact sheet discusses coping skills that have helped others deal with related issues, and provides a list of resources for more info... Details >

AARP  External Link

Mind/Body Connection: How Your Emotions Affect Your Health  External Link

Your body responds to the way you think, feel and act. This is often called the “mind/body connection.” When you are stressed, anxious or upset, your body tries to tell you that something isn’t right.... Details >

American Academy of Family Physicians  External Link

Monthly Kid and Teen Tips - Girls and Boys Town National Hotline  External Link

The very first thing you should do when kids are trying to talk you into doing something is think. Too many times, kids get into trouble by just going along with the crowd. Your generation is no diffe... Details >

Girls and Boys Town National Hotline  External Link

Preventing Burnout: Signs, Symptoms, and Strategies to Avoid It  External Link

If constant stress has you feeling physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausted, you may be suffering from burnout. Burnout reduces your productivity and saps your energy, leaving you feeling incre... Details >

Helpguide  External Link

School Violence: Tips For Coping With Stress

School shootings are sobering and tragic events that cause much concern about the safety of children. Despite these events, schools remain a very safe place for children to spend their days. The Cente... Details >

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Story on Stress  External Link

Kids get some general information about what stress is and on how to cope with stressful situations.... Details >

Nemours Foundation  External Link

Stress

Girls information about growing up and stress. Learn what stress is, how to cope with stress and how to ask for help if you think you need it.... Details >

SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information

Stress Calculator  External Link

How stressed are you? Use this tool to find out.... Details >

University of Maryland Medical Center  External Link

Stress Management for Children

Children, teens, and their parents are under more stress than ever. Lists of "things to do" and "stars to reach for" grow longer. Parents and caregivers can help children manage stress by managing the... Details >

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Stress Management: How to Reduce, Prevent, and Cope with Stress  External Link

If you’re living with high levels of stress, you’re putting your entire well-being at risk. Stress wreaks havoc on your emotional equilibrium, as well as your physical health. This fact sheet discusse... Details >

Helpguide  External Link

Stress Relief for the African-American Caregiver  External Link

Taking good care of your family also means taking care of yourself and getting some help. This publication discusses stress relief for the African-American caregiver. A stress checklist is provided al... Details >

Alzheimer's Association  External Link

Stress Relief: Yoga, Meditation, and Other Relaxation Techniques  External Link

The body’s natural relaxation response is a powerful antidote to stress. Relaxation techniques such as deep breathing, visualization, progressive muscle relaxation, meditation, and yoga can help you a... Details >

Helpguide  External Link

Stress: How Stress Affects You  External Link

Although individual physical and emotional reactions to stress vary, the results are similar. A stress overload activates areas of your brain that then send involuntary impulses to organs elsewhere in... Details >

American Medical Women's Association  External Link

Systematic Stress Management® from the American Institute for Preventive Medicine  External Link

Systematic Stress Management® is a structured program designed to prevent and minimize the damaging effects of stress. The techniques presented are easy to learn and can be included in normal day to d... Details >

American Institute for Preventive Medicine  External Link

Tai Chi for Health and Wellness  External Link

T'ai Chi is a slow-motion martial art that can build agility, strength, and balance and reduce stress. This on-line class will teach you twelve basic T'ai Chi movements, and show you how to incoporate... Details >

Stanford Prevention Research Center  External Link

Violence Prevention: Tips for Coping With Stress

Mass tragedies, including school shootings, workplace violence, and community violence affect different people in different ways. People exposed to these situations can experience physical reactions, ... Details >

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Ways to De-Stress and Help Your Child Do the Same

Stress is a natural part of life, but too much of it can be harmful Stress in the family, even if not directly related to the child, can make a child feel stressed as well. This article provides sugge... Details >

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Work Stress Resources

This webpage links users to a host of job-stress-related resources including organizations and journals.... Details >

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention