Strategies to Manage Adult Stress
Overview
Managing stress can be challenging. Putting these resources into regular practice can enhance skills in managing stress and promote overall wellbeing.
Courses
Enhancing Professional Wellbeing
The Enhancing Professional Wellbeing course is designed to explore ways to maintain personal wellbeing, support a positive working environment, and reduce feelings of burnout. Learn about wellbeing from fellow LA County employees and explore fictional situations to gain strategies for supporting professional wellbeing.
Kindness Counts: Strategies for Self Compassion
An introduction to mindful self-compassion as a research-based tool for reducing stress, building resilience, and enhancing wellbeing in the workplace.
Managing Role Conflicts Through Acceptance, Emotion Regulation, and Gratitude
An exploration of role conflicts with strategies for managing stress and navigating competing demands while striving to balance personal and professional responsibilities.
Strategies for Wellbeing: Mitigating Workplace Stress and Leveraging Resilience
A look at the ways working with individuals who have experienced trauma can affect professional wellbeing. Explore the impact of secondary traumatic stress on organizations and learn strategies to enhance both personal and professional wellbeing.
Printable Tools
Compassion Fatigue and Self-Care
It can be hard to take care of ourselves when we spend so much time providing care to others. We often consider self-care something we can only participate in when we have large amounts of time to devote to it. Download this tool for some ways to practice self-care, even if you only have a few minutes.
Managing the Stress of Returning to Work After COVID-19: A Guide for Supervisors
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many aspects of personal and occupational life. A shift to remote work/tele-working may have changed how workers manage daily routines, develop work goals, perform tasks, and interact with one another. Access this printable tool to support workers in returning to in-person work.
Mental Health and Supportive Services
Access this printable tool to get mental health and supportive services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Videos
Take a Deep Breath With Calm
Have you ever considered how focusing on your breathing can help you, de-stress? Follow the Calm App's "Take a Deep Breath" video. You will experience how breathing deeply in and out can support your overall wellbeing.
Tips for Dealing With Stress as a Caregiver
Stress from being a caregiver can affect your physical and mental health. Learn the signs and symptoms of caregiver burnout.
Learning Pathways
Somatic Series: Widening Our Window of Tolerance
This pathway provides an overview of the Window of Tolerance and accessible, body-based mindfulness practices to support yourself or those in your communities. Learn how the Window of Tolerance concept applies to wellbeing and practical body-based strategies to support wellbeing, nervous system regulation, and a wider Window of Tolerance. This pathway includes explanations, examples, and opportunities for practice. Get ready for a different type of experience: after the first step of the pathway, the milestones will guide you through real-life practices. How to get ready to complete ...
Virtual Trainings
Minority Stress and the Medical Professional: How Minority Stress Affects Mental Health
This training contains information on depression and suicidality. You are encouraged to take care of yourself when participating in this training to feel safe and comfortable. This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar opens with a personal vignette about Dr. Chase T. M. Anderson's life as an African American and gay person in America, and what it meant to grow up with those facets of identity. The purpose of this presentation is to provide a personal perspective on how minority stress can affect minoritized people. ...
Articles
Reducing Parent Reactivity and Increasing Calm
Review four strategies to practice with parents in order to reduce their reactivity to certain situations and calm their nervous systems.
Spring Into Mental Health Awareness Month
Spring is a time of fresh blooms, nourishment, sunshine, and awakening. This year in particular, spending time planting in my garden, I feel a sense of restored energy. On the occasional rainy day, I am delighted to bring out my rain boots, as I know the rain supports growth. The month of May wraps up the spring season and is also mental health awareness month.
Strategies for Coping With and Overcoming Loss and Grief
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, historical and ongoing social injustices, and environmental disasters (CDC, 2020) have resulted in collective hurt. Many people are experiencing deep feelings of grief around loss: from the loss of family members or friends due to disease or violence, loss of normality or social support, or even loss of a home or living area.
Successfully Working From Home
For many, working from home is a reality in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak and you may suddenly find yourself struggling to maintain the equilibrium between your personal and professional life. Navigating this balancing act can be challenging. Luckily, there are tools and strategies that can help guide you through. Here are four to consider.
Mobile Tools
Liberate Meditation
Liberate is a meditation app that includes practices and talks designed for the Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) community to reduce anxiety and stress and to sleep better.
Websites
CalHOPE Redline: Peer Support for COVID-19 Challenges
The CalHOPE Redline is a phone, chat, and video chat service providing National, State, and County resources, referrals, and trauma informed support for Urban Indian and Tribal populations. Access the CalHOPE Redline website to find out more
iPrevail
iPrevail is accessible through any device connected to the internet. The iPrevail platform offers a one-of-a-kind network of mental health support. From interactive lessons and chats with peer support coaches, to topic-based community support groups, you can see your progress being made and connect with other people going through similar life experiences all in one place.
Self-Compassion by Dr. Kristin Neff
All-in-one resource for self-compassion. This is the official website for Dr. Kristin Neff, pioneering self-compassion researcher, author, and teacher.
Some Good News
To bring a bit of humor and light during COVID-19 as families stay at home, John Krasinski has started a new YouTube show called "Some Good News."
