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- A Student's Guide to Stress Management
A Student’s Guide to Stress Management provides viewers with a foundational understanding of what stress is, how to manage it, and how it can even be helpful! Grounded in research, but also accessible, this video will help students increase their understanding of stress, and how to turn it into opportunities for growth and success. - Stress ManagementThis stress management training program explains how to reprogram our ancient operating system to survive and thrive in a modern world. In this video, workers will learn:• Ten easy to follow tips for reducing your stress levels• How to reprogram our ancient operating system• The importance of diet and exercise for managing stress.
- Your Own Mental WellnessAchieving and maintaining good mental wellbeing is important for all of us.This mental health and wellbeing training program details some of the conditions that signal good mental health and gives various tips and ideas on how you can improve your mental wellness. In this video, workers will learn:• What is mental health• Several ways to accomplish emotional wellness• The importance of relationships
- Simple Stress Relief for Everyone: Relaxation TrainingGray’s 20-minute video provides mindfulness breathing and gentle chair yoga instruction for stress relief. She explains the effects of stress and benefits of reducing stress on health, sleeping, relationships, and learning. The multimodal instruction, complimentary imagery, and music invite viewers to engage in the practice. The visual, aural, and closed captioning offers basic instruction and can easily be used for those with disabilities as well as young and mature individuals. This video could be used in conjunction with current standard treatments or independently in the naturalistic environment.
- Mindfulness in PracticeThis instructional video, from the "Reaching Teens: Strength-Based Communication Strategies to Build Resilience and Support Healthy Adolescent Development" series produced by the American Academy of Pediatrics, is a lecture and demonstration by adolescent medicine specialist Dzung X. Vo about practicing mindfulness.
- Change Your Mind to Change Your StressChanging your perception of stressful situations isn't easy. Dr. Bonura teaches you the nuances of cognitive restructuring, including how to reframe your thoughts of self-punishment (and avoid self-punishing behaviors) and how to productively face and manage your fears (including setting aside a specific time each day to worry).
- Cleveland Clinic, "Stress: Ways to Ease Stress," 10/12/2020
Stress refers to your body's reaction to challenges and demands. Stress can be positive or negative and there are healthy ways to deal with it. Sleeping well is important in stress management. - Kerri-Ann Jennings, "16 Simple Ways to Relieve Stress and Anxiety," 10/28/2018Stress and anxiety are common experiences for most people. In fact, 70% of adults in the United States say they feel stress or anxiety daily. Here are 16 simple ways to relieve stress and anxiety.
- Mayo Clinic Staff, "Stress Relievers: Tips to Tame Stress," 3/12/2019Stress getting to you? Try some of these tips for stress relief.
- Kelly Bilodeau, "3 Simple Strategies for Stress Relief," 1/25/2021Family stress. Work stress. Daily life stress. Self-induced stress brought on by scrolling through the news. As it turns out, stress is almost impossible to avoid. So this year, instead of waiting for your most recent stressful patch to ebb, take a different approach. Teach yourself to stay grounded and calm — regardless of what’s going on around you.
- Harvard Health Publishing, "Relaxtion Techniques: Breath Control Helps Quell Errant Stress Response," 7/6/2020The term "fight or flight" is also known as the stress response. It's what the body does as it prepares to confront or avoid danger. When appropriately invoked, the stress response helps us rise to many challenges. But trouble starts when this response is constantly provoked by less momentous, day-to-day events, such as money woes, traffic jams, job worries, or relationship problems. Breath focus is a common feature of several techniques that evoke the relaxation response.
- Anna Borges, "11 Tips for Anyone Who Doesn't Know How to Relax," 8/20/2020For many, relaxing is easier said than done, but we’ve got some tips on how to make your rest time, well, feel like rest.
- Healthwise Staff, "Stress Management: Doing Progressive Muscle Relaxation," 8/31/2020Have you ever had an aching back or pain in your neck when you were anxious or stressed? When you have anxiety or stress in your life, one of the ways your body responds is with muscle tension. Progressive muscle relaxation is a method that helps relieve that tension.
- Jakie Rodriguez, "Five Tips for Managing Stress During Finals," 11/19/2020While everyone manages anxiety in a different way, below are some general tips to help you succeed these last few weeks before the end of the term.
- Johns Hopkins University, "Taking Finals During Coronavirus," 4/24/2020It’s that season again. Trees bud, flowers bloom…and college students pull all-nighters and drink way too much caffeine. Your son or daughter may have moved back home because of coronavirus, but they still have to take final exams. Fortunately, with planning and mindfulness, they can avoid last-minute panic. If they follow these seven steps, they’ll finish the school year in great shape. Share these tips with your student today!
- Stress Tip Sheet
APA offer tips on how to manage your stress - Top 10 Stress Management Techniques for StudentsThis author discusses the common causes of stress in students and recommends stress relievers to cope with them.
- Managing StressMany students find that they need to develop new skills in order to balance academic demands with a healthy lifestyle. Fortunately, the University of Michigan offers many resources to help students develop these skills.
- Virtual Mindfulness and Stress Reduction ActivitiesIncluded you will find a list of mindfulness and stress reduction activities you can do at home to help manage your emotional well-being. Some of these techniques may work better for you than others and that’s okay. Explore and find what mindfulness and relaxation techniques work best for you.
- Online Tools for Managing StressMentalHelp.Net has an array of information and tools on how to manage stress at its stress center, where you can find information on the nature of stress, the four stages of a stress reaction, the mental and emotional impact of stress and much more.
- Finals Week Virtual Stress Relief GuideHere are some ideas to relieve stress and help you relax during final exams, provided by the Drexel University Libraries.
- The American Institute of StressTransforming stress through awareness, education and collaboration.
- Tranquility du Jour
Hosted by therapist and creative entrepreneur Kimberly Wilson, this podcast will help you on the way to living a full, calm and meaningful life. With topics varying from yoga, to mindfulness, to travel, and entrepreneurship, this podcast will help you manoeuvre your way through everyday stresses and remain calm and happy. - College Student Success PodcastThis podcast is devoted to helping college students set goals that matter to them, and achieve them. This podcast will focus on empowering you to take an active role by setting a goal that you have a passion for achieving (it can be school-related, but doesn’t have to be), then try out the strategies I talk about that might help you get closer to achieving your goals, which in turn get you closer to your dreams.
- Daily Meditation PodcastGuided meditations 7-days a week to sleep better, reduce stress and anxiety, and to be your most productive. Learn how to meditate in just 15-minutes as we explore a different weekly meditation theme together. Additionally you'll discover a brand new meditation technique every single day.
- Three Pop Culture Recommendations to Calm Your NervesThere's a time for excitement, for the things that make us angry or scare us silly. But then there are all the other times. Sometimes we want something that will calm us down and slow our heart rates. We recommend some calming pieces of pop culture.
- How to Finish the Semester StrongStressed out about your finals? Not sure how to finish the semester strong? You and every other college girl out there. In order to properly prepare and study for your final exams, you’ll need to be able to answer these five questions. Question #1: What’s going to be on your exam? Question #2: What’s the format? Question #3: How will you study? Question #4 What are your weak areas? Question #5 When will I study?
- UntangleProduced by the people behind the Meditation Studio app, Untangle focuses on “inspiring, uncensored stories from people who have untangled from society’s giant rule book to create a meaningful life”. Each episode will teach you how to slow down, reduce your stress levels and create a feeling of calm when you need it most. However, be warned – after listening to just one episode, you may well become convinced that meditation is the answer to all of the world’s problems.
- The Mindful MinuteTrying mediation for the first time can be intimidating, especially if you have no idea what to do. Fortunately, there are teachers like Meryl Arnett of The Mindful Minute podcast, that take you through simple and concise guided meditations that allow you to get out of your own head (and your own way) while learning how to live in the moment.
- LSC-Montgomery Academic Coaching
Academic coaching is a live interactive one-on-one session with an academic coach that provides support and assistance in improving academic skills & performance. Coaches can help mitigate and overcome perceived barriers, identify areas of strength and weakness, devise a personalized plan of action, and more! - LSC-Montgomery Academic Coaching WorkshopsThe STAR Center offers a selection of student-focused workshops hosted by faculty, tutors, and staff. Our workshops are divided into two groups: course content-based workshops that provide an in-depth review of core academic concepts and academic skills workshops that explore various skills that are key to academic success in college.
- LSC-Montgomery Counseling ServicesChange, stress, and personal growth are all elements of the college experience. LSC counselors are skilled professionals committed to assisting you in meeting your academic, career and personal goals.