{"id":1656,"date":"2015-12-07T14:46:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T18:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2015-12-07T14:46:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T18:46:50","slug":"de-stressing-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2015\/12\/07\/de-stressing-students\/","title":{"rendered":"De-Stressing Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we all know, the end of the semester is a stressful time for both faculty and students. While we can\u2019t eliminate most of the causes of stress, we can mitigate stress\u2019 negative effects on our physical and emotional states by taking care of ourselves. Informing\u00a0our students about\u00a0resources to help\u00a0deal with stress can go a long way towards helping\u00a0them get through the end of the semester successfully.<\/p>\n<p>The <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~chwb\/livingwell\/?Page=programs.html\">UVM Living Well<\/a><\/em> program provides a smorgasbord of de-stressing events and services for students, such as office hours from Tucker the therapy dog, free massage, and drop-in meditation.<\/p>\n<p>Letting your students know about these and other upcoming events reminds them\u00a0that UVM recognizes the impact of excessive stress and that we care about their personal well-being. \u00a0Making an announcement in Blackboard (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/ctl\/?Page=blackboard\/announcements.php&amp;SM=m_blackboard.html\" target=\"_blank\">directions here)<\/a>\u00a0is a simple\u00a0way to share this information.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some resources you may want to share with your students:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uvmbored.com\/events\/category\/uvm-department\/living-well\/\" target=\"_blank\">Living Well December Events<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~chwb\/psych\/?Page=mindfulness.html&amp;SM=mindfulnessmenu.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mind-body Wellness Program<\/a> (this site has audio resources for guided meditations)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~chwb\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Health and Wellbeing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we all know, the end of the semester is a stressful time for both faculty and students. While we can\u2019t eliminate most of the causes of stress, we can mitigate stress\u2019 negative effects on our physical and emotional states &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2015\/12\/07\/de-stressing-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6875,454],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promote-to-ctl-home-page","category-resources","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}