Corporate Stress Solutions: Stress Resources

Corporate Stress Solutions: Stress Resources

General Information About Stress
The National Mental Health Association: Stress - Coping With Everyday Problems. http://www.nmha.org/infoctr/factsheets/41.cfm

Health and Wellness/Natural Healing
HealthGate's comprehensive site on medical information:
http://www.healthgate.com

OnHealth Network Co. is a consumer health information company based in Seattle and are not tied to a particular doctor, health system or insurance company. They aim to look at medical care and good health from the consumer's perspective.
http://onhealth.com/ch1/resource/conditions

InteliHealth is a health information company injoint venture with Aetna U.S. Healthcare® and Johns Hopkins University and Health System.
http://www.intelihealth.com

PLAINSENSE.COM. This site helps with everyday health questions.
http://www.plainsense.com

Mental Health in General
Mental Health InfoSource has technical information for professionals and the public:
http://www.mhsource.com

The National Institute for Mental Health site:
http://www.nimh.nih.gov

The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN) provides information about mental health via a toll-free telephone number (800-789-2647), more than 200 publications, and this web site.
http://www.mentalhealth.org

Relaxation Strategies
A commercial site with books and tapes on guided relaxation and creative visualization http://www.relaxationstation.com/guidedrelax.htm

Inspirational ideas on how to relax:
http://www.relax-online.com

Using Meditation
The MeditationPage.com is a non-profit initiative to promote meditation and related activities in a non-judgmental way to improve quality of life for all people. Its intention is to be religion neutral.
http://themeditationpage.com

The Indian Commune of Osho offers "Meditation for the Twentieth Century" and describes a variety of meditation styles:
http://osho.com/meditate/meditate.htm

Jon Kabat-Zinn Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Director, Stress Reduction Clinic writes about meditation.
http://www.talamasca.org/avatar/mindfulness.html

Nutrition, Weight Management
CyberDiet: a Registered Dietician has created interactive modules that allow users to customize a program to achieve their specific goals as well as providing nutritional information
http://www.cyberdiet.com

The Duke University Diet & Fitness Center offers a program for a lifestyle, NOT a diet. Based on sound scientific principles and experience, their team of health professionals work with participants to plan and practice each of four essential components of successful weight management
http://www.dfc.mc.duke.edu

The Fitness Jumpsite has several features including a Fitness Library full of information on getting motivated, eating right, and battling the bulge. If you're considering the purchase of equipment to fight fat at home, get the skinny here first on abdominal exercisers, aerobic riders,treadmills, stationary bikes, and other contraptions.
http://primusweb.com/fitnesspartner

Michael Myers, M.D. Offers medical and behavioral information on obesity and weight control: http://www.weight.com

Prevention magazine's article entitiled "71 weight loss tips"
http://www.healthyideas.com/report/980610/sp1.html

Substance Abuse
The National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence is a voluntary health organization that provides education and help in the fight against alocholism and drug addiction
http://www.ncadd.org
http://www.ncadd.org/interven.html

Robert Westermeyer, Ph.D. maintains an information site on addiction and other habit changes:
http://www.cts.com/crash/habtsmrt/index.html

Smoking Cessation
The Quitnet--An award winning free resource to Quit Smoking:
http://wwwquitnet.org

The Nemours Doundation site on children's health, including smoking:
http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/bodymind/smoking.html

The American Cancer Society's site on tobacco control:
http://www.cancer.org

How to Quit, from the U.S. Center for Disease Control
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/how2quit.htm

The Mining Company's Guide to Smoking Cessation
http://quitsmoking.miningco.com/mbody.htm

A quit smoking program for a fee:
http://www.ucanquit.com

Optimism
The American Psychological Association:
http://helping.apa.org/mind_body/learned.html

Sleep
Sleep Home Pages offers extensive information on research about sleep:
http://bisleep.medsch.ucla.edu

One of Sleepnet.com's goals is to link all the sleep information located on the internet.
http://www.sleepnet.com

Exercise
Global Health & Fitness is an on-line guide to healthy living and optimal fitness for beginner or advanced. Techniques for making your routine more effective.
http://www.global-fitness.com

FitTeen is a site dedicated to bringing Health and Fitness information to teenagers looking to get fit and learn about diet and exercise. Their goal is to educate and motivate teens to create habits that they can take into adulthood while making diet and fitness fun.
http://www.FitTeen.com/bio.html

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's fitness guidelines for seniors. Find step-by-step instructions for instituting a safe exercise routine. Also read about the effects of exercise on disease.
http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/9703/htm/me9702.htm

Commit to Get Fit: An exercise guide at About.com has put together this article to help you get started on an exercise program designed to increase your cardiovascular health and fitness. There is info here about running, stretching and more.
http://exercise.miningco.com/health/fitness/exercise/library/weekly/aa051798.htm?iam=mt

InteliHealth is a health information company injoint venture with Aetna U.S. Healthcare® and Johns Hopkins University and Health System.
http://www.intelihealth.com

Job Stress
WebMD - The comprehensive online health resource-serving health information and support needs. job stress reduction:
http://my.webmd.com/search_results?query=job+stress+reduction

The Center for Disease Control and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health studies the psychological aspects of occupational safety and health, including stress at work, the effects of stress on worker safety and health, and ways to reduce stress in the workplace.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/stresswk.html
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/aboutjs.html

The JOB STRESS NETWORK is the home page of the Center For Social Epidemiology, a private non-profit foundation. This site brings together information related to Job Strain and Work Stress, especially in the etiology of cardiovascular disease:
http://www.workhealth.org/index.html

Web site for The Journal of Occupational Psychology:
http://www.apa.org/journals/ohp.html

Work & Stress is an international research journal which is edited within the Centre for Organisational Health & Development in the U.K. Their site is:
http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/research/journals/work&stresshome.html

The International Stress Management Association is a non-profit organization which seeks to advance the education of professionals and students and to facilitate research in inter-disciplinary stress management fields:
http://www.stress-management-isma.org

Money Management (not investment information) for Financial Stress
The Motley Fool is an organization dedicated to educating, amusing, and enriching individuals in search of the truth about personal finances Understand how to do things like invest in the stock market, buy a house, buy a car, and handle credit cards responsibly.
http://www.fool.com

The Family Economics Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) U.S. Department of Agriculture, and extension specialists across the U.S. Have created the National Network for Family Resiliency. Their finance web site is:
http://www.hec.ohiostate.edu/cts/osue/famfin.htm

Family Stress
The American Psychological Association's Help Center for families:
http://helping.ara.org/family

A parenting support list and information on parenting skills:
http://parentingtoolbox.com

http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/familydevelopment/components/familystress.html

The Nemours Foundation site offers information on parenting and other children's health issues.
http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/bodymind/stress.html

The National Women's Health Information Center and the Alliance for Caregiving's site on caregiver stress
http://www.4woman.gov/faq/caregiver.html

News articles on family stress from the Knowledge Exchange Network(KEN)
http://www.mentalhealth.org/newsroom/marriagearchives.htm

The National Network for Family Resiliency (NNFR) is an interactive network which provides resources that foster "a family's ability to cultivate strengths to positively meet the challenges of life." Collaborators from ES-USDA and 42 Land Grant Universities. Their web site is:
http://www.nnfr.org

Immune response information
The National Women's Health Information Center:
http://www.4woman.gov/faq/stress.htm

PLAINSENSE.COM. This site helps with everyday health questions.
http://www.plainsense.com/health/stress/immune.htm

"Psychologic Stress, Immunity, and Cancer". Editorial from the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, January 7, 1998:
http://www.prostatelab.com/stress.htm

Cognitive Behavior Therapy
The Cognitive Therapy Center of Brooklyn maintains a site devoted to information and links about cognitive therapy:
http://www.cognitivetherapy.com

The National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists is an organization dedicated solely to the teaching and practice of cognitive behavioral psychotherapy. Their site is:
http://www.nacbt.org

"Cognitive Therapy: A Multimedia Learning Program " is a computer program to combine interactive multimedia with the proven psychiatric techniques of Cognitive Therapy, the most heavily researched form of psychotherapy.
http://mindstreet.com/mindstreet.html

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