Got Family Stress?

How do they do it? How do some families manage to walk through natural disasters, family illness, and financial struggles without any sign of family stress? Are they experts at family stress management? Can you learn the same kind of family stress management? There may be much more than meets the eye when one of [...]

Causes of Stress on Students

Students experience great amounts of stress, whether teenagers or college age, in the family or among their peers. Most adults have forgotten what it was like to experience the stress placed on students, but students ride the roller coaster every day. Stress in its positive form – eustress – is necessary, healthy, and enjoyable. However, [...]

Stress Monkeys

Imagine that you just asked me to draw a cartoon representing causes of stress. I quickly sketch two funny monkeys, grins spread ear to ear. “How do monkeys represent causes of stress?” you ask. Silently, I sketch more pictures: the monkeys on a man’s back, yanking his head as they fight one another; the man [...]

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