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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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Grief and Crisis Decisions
Emotions tend to be strong after a disaster. Know that this is normal.
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Family Problem Solving
Successful social decisions bring people closer together and improve future communication.
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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
How to cope with change and possibly see change as an opportunity.
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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
Health and Nutrition — Online resources and classes for families, promotion of healthy school environments, and ocntinuing education for professionals.
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.
