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Wellbeing: Stress

This guide has many tips, ideas, and links that will assist you in maintaining healthy wellbeing both physically and mentally.

Useful Websites

Exam Stress

Exam time = stress time. Whether you’re at school battling your HSC, VCE, QCS, NTCE, SACE, WACE or TCE (phew!), or you’re at TAFE or university, exam stress or general Year 12 stress can be really tough.

Videos

Find out how stress can help you to kick goals and learn the signs that it might be spiralling out of control.

ReachOut.com Australia

Reachout.com Australia

Hear from young people and professionals talk about feeling stressed, anxious, worried or down.

Books in Library Collection

The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens : mindfulness skills to help you deal with stress

This new edition of The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens offers go-to tips and activities to help you relax, prioritize, and keep calm during stressful times. You'll find out how mindfulness can help you stop your inner worry bully. You'll also learn how to balance your emotions and stay cool in difficult situations.

Call No: 155.5 BIE

A Still Quiet Place for Teens : a mindfulness workbook to ease stress & difficult emotions

Being a teen in today's fast-paced, media-saturated world is difficult, and it's easy to get overwhelmed or stressed out. This breakthrough workbook will help you balance your emotions, stay focused, and experience the natural quietness that lives within you.

Call No: 155.5 SAL

Relationship Skills 101 for Teens : your guide to dealing with daily drama, stress & difficult emotions using DBT

In Relationship Skills 101 for Teens, Sheri Van Dijk offers teens powerful tools to regulate their emotions and create better relationships - whether it's with parents, friends and peers, or dates. Using skills based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), teens will learn to take control of their emotions and reactions in order to respond effectively to peer pressure, bullying, and gossip, and navigate the myriad social issues that make these years so challenging.

Call No: 155.5 VAN

Surviving Year 12: a sanity kit for students and their parents

Using his distinctive mix of humour and wisdom, Dr Carr-Gregg discusses the most important skills for creating a successful year. He provides practical advice on how to: study smarter, deal with stress and anxiety, get enough sleep, set and achieve your goals, maintain your emotional health and your social life, manage your family, develop good exercise and diet regimes and cope with the exams themselves.

Call No: 649 CAR

ebooks in Library Collection

The Stress Survival Guide for Teens: CBT Skills to Worry Less, Develop Grit, and Live Your Best Life

Between school pressures, friends, dating, social media, and planning for the future-is it any wonder today's teens are stressed out? In The Stress Survival Guide for Teens, clinical psychologist Jeffrey Bernstein offers practical and easy-to-learn tips based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and positive psychology to show teens how to keep stress and worry from taking over their life so they can overcome setbacks and set themselves up for success.

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