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Dealing with Stress
Are you or a family member dealing with stress?
Stress can affect every part of your life - if you let it!
These resources are here to help.
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Dealing with Stress: An Educational Web-based Series
Online workshop series to help understand your own stresses and tools to return them to a more manageable level. For those in agriculture or anyone experiencing stress.
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What is Stress?
Quick guide reviews types of stress, sources of stress, and tips for managing stress.
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Controlling Stress
How to take care of yourself; know when to seek help.
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Identifying Sources of Support and Friendship
Identify your support system to help get you through a crisis.
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Getting Through Tough Times
Fact sheets that cover getting help, making financial decisions with less, dealing with stress, figuring out how to do more with less, and children and tough times.
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Parental Stress
Reviews the interacting factors in family stress and the effects of stress on parents.
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Communicating Under Pressure
Speak carefully and listen attentively.
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Change: Loss, Opportunity, and Resilience
This online presentation discusses the stages people go through when they experience life changes and the ways to cope with change.
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Dealing with Stress: An Educational Web-based Series
Online workshops help you identify and battle the stress. For those in agriculture or anyone experiencing stress.
Other recommended resources
- Stress Management — Healthwise, Inc. on MSN Health & Fitness — Provides an overview of stress including causes, effects, avoiding, relieving, and getting additional help.
- Understanding Stress — HELPGUIDE.ORG — Provides an overview of stress including signs, symptoms, causes, and effects.
- The Road to Resilience — APA Help Center, American Psychological Association — Online brochure that describes resilience and some factors that affect how people deal with hardship.
- American Institute of Stress — Answers frequently asked questions about stress to help transform stress so you are more productive and less self-destructive.
You may also be interested in resources aimed at farm families or disaster recovery. See other recommended resources for resources beyond Extension.
