Stress and Relaxation

Relaxation can relieve the negative health effects of your body's stress response, including headaches, insomnia or increased risk of heart disease.

Follow the links below to find information about stress and relaxation.

Reviewed March 2011

18 Resources Found

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Title:	Stress and relaxation
Publisher:	Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:	Is life speeding up? It seems like we need to do more and more just to keep up. This topic is about stress, how to recognise it and how to stay on top.
Date:	Nov 2011

Title:	Stress - learning to relax
Publisher:	Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:	Sometimes everything seems to go wrong at once. As more things happen we get more stressed, which means we get too tired and can't think properly!
Date:	Sep 2011

Title:	Anger - how it affects people
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Anger is a powerful emotion. Uncontrolled anger may cause increased anxiety, high blood pressure and headaches, and trigger fights or abuse. Anger management strategies include regular exercise and learning how to relax.
Date:	Aug 2011

Title:	Cognitive reframing for carers of people with dementia
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	There is some evidence that cognitive reframing interventions for family carers of people with dementia are effective. Dementia care is challenging for family carers. We studied whether they could be helped by cognitive reframing interventions. Cogniti...
Date:	Jun 2011

Title:	Mind-body interventions during pregnancy for preventing or treating women's anxiety
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:	Mind-body interventions like yoga or hypnotherapy may be effective for reducing anxiety. These can be learned to induce mental relaxation and alter negative thinking related to anxiety to change the perception of a stressful event, leading to better ad...
Date:	May 2011

Title:	Meditation
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Meditation involves deliberately holding one's attention on a subject, object or process. It may also involve clearing the mind. Results can include feeling more 'alive', enhanced feelings of calm and heightened awareness. Meditation offers many health benefits, such as reducing stress, and supporting healing and recovery from accidents.
Date:	Apr 2011

Title:	Breathing to reduce stress
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Stress can be managed and reduced with proper breathing. Shallow breathing is a typical stress response. Hyperventilation can prolong anxiety and stress. Abdominal breathing techniques soothe the nervous system and encourage health benefits, such as reduced blood pressure.
Date:	Feb 2011

Title:	Reducing stress with muscle relaxation
Publisher:	Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:	A muscular relaxation technique for times of stress, including a step-by-step guide to how stressed parents can relax their muscles and ease stress.
Date:	Feb 2011

Title:	Depression - management + treatment
Publisher:	Inspire Foundation
Description:	Depression or a depressed mood can be a response to an event and sometimes it can occur for no reason.
Date:	Nov 2011

Title:	Stress - learning to relax
Publisher:	Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:	If you are feeling stressed, then you may be having trouble with sleeping and concentrating, and with being positive and hopeful. Your body may be trying to get you to recognise that it is feeling stressed by giving you headaches, making you feel sick, giving you indigestion, a fluttery feeling in the tummy, or any one of a number of other signs that are trying to show you that you need to relax. Here are some ideas to help you deal with stress.
Date:	Sep 2010

Title:	Stress
Publisher:	Inspire Foundation
Description:	What causes stress, the effects of being stressed and how you can manage it.
Date:	Oct 2011

Title:	Fact sheet 6 - Reducing stress
Publisher:	beyondblue
Description:	Stress is a response to an event or situation. It can be positive or negative. Stress is common in daily life and may be associated with work, family or personal relationships. It usually means that something is happening that's causing worry and affecting how we are thinking and feeling.
Date:	Aug 2010

Title:	Tinnitus - tips to help you adjust
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Tinnitus does not have to dramatically affect your quality of life. Avoid focusing too much attention on your tinnitus and take steps to manage the condition. Avoid excessive noise and find relaxation and stress management strategies that work for you.
Date:	Jun 2010

Title:	Sleep problems - babies
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Around one-third of babies experience excessive disrupted sleep. Common problems include extended crying when first put to bed and, sometimes, later during the night. Parents can use various strategies to help their baby settle and sleep better. A tired or crying baby can be stressful for parents, who need help and support networks.
Date:	Jan 2010

Title:	Tinnitus - lifestyle adjustments can help
Publisher:	Better Health Channel
Description:	Tinnitus can be managed with some lifestyle changes. Avoiding stress, fatigue and loud noise can help. Some foods and drinks can increase tinnitus including caffeine (in tea, coffee and other drinks), quinine (in tonic water), red wine and spicy foods. Quit smoking to improve your health and ask your doctor if your medications may make tinnitus worse.
Date:	Oct 2009

Title:	Stress less...your mind and body will thank you for it
Publisher:	Queensland Health
Description:	Stress is a part of everyday life and some stress is actually good for you. Too much stress all of the time can be harmful and can affect us in many ways. Outlines common stress management techniques.
Date:	Oct 2009

Title:	Managing stress
Publisher:	Novita Children's Services
Description:	Information is provided about stress, what it is and what causes it. Lots of practical suggestions are also provided for constructively dealing with stress.
Date:	Jul 2009

Title:	Settling baby to sleep
Publisher:	Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:	Why babies may have difficulty going to sleep, and strategies parents can use to help.
Date:	Oct 1999

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