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RVCC Advising & Counseling - Free, personal short-term counseling is available to students. We recognize your college years can be challenging and we want to support you and help you have a productive, rewarding and satisfying college experience.
Monday 8:30am - 6pm
Drop-In Hours no appointment needed 8:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Drop-In Hours no appointment needed: 8:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Drop-In Hours no appointment needed: 8:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 6pm
Drop-In Hours no appointment needed: 8:30am - 5:30pm (Occasional Staff Meetings 2:30pm-4:00pm)
Friday 8:30am - 5pm
Drop-In Hours: no appointment needed: 8:30am - 4:30pm
Location: Lower Level of the Library Building, (L029 near the Welcome Center)
Phone: (908) 526-1200 Ext. 8336
For Personal Counseling Concerns, Email: personalcounseling@raritanval.edu
- Intensive Family Support Services - Catholic CharitiesHelp families with relatives living with serious mental illness.
- The Trevor Project's Get HelpResources are available via chat, call, or text. "Connect to a crisis counselor 24/7, 365 days a year, from anywhere in the U.S. It is 100% confidential, and 100% free." Text START to 678678. See additional information by clicking "see more"
Videos available to watch online:
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- A Student's Guide to Stress ManagementCollege is an exciting time for students. Many cannot wait to meet new people, experience a new degree of independence, explore new surroundings, and learn new subjects that may one day connect to a career. But with this excitement comes varying degrees of stress. This 2018 video provides viewers with a foundational understanding of what stress is, how to manage it, and how it can even be helpful! Grounded in research, but also accessible, this video will help students increase their understanding of stress, and how to turn it into opportunities for growth and success.
- A Student's Guide to Getting Back on TrackAt some point in college, most students will struggle and fall off-track, whether it's with a class or a campus job or with eating and sleeping habits. The good news is there are many resources to help. Universities and colleges increasingly recognize the need to view students holistically and offer support services to help students get back on track. This 2019 video will help viewers understand how getting off-track happens, how to become aware of it, and strategies to overcome it
- Mental Health & Wellbeing: Stress ManagementThis stress management training program explains how to reprogram our ancient operating system to survive and thrive in a modern world. In this 2020 video, workers will learn: Ten easy to follow tips for reducing your stress levels. How to reprogram our ancient operating system. The importance of diet and exercise for managing stress
EBooks available to read online:
Stress Management for Dummies
Stress management for dummies gives you trusted, time-tested guidance on teaching your body and mind to properly cope with stress while keeping your sanity intact. Whether it's love, work, family, or something else that has you in the red zone, this updated edition of Stress Management For Dummies will help you identify the stress triggers in your life.
Stress and Young People
This guide is aimed at helping young people to identify and understand stress and its impacts on their mental and physical health. It features a range of tips, strategies and tools for managing and reducing stress, including relaxation techniques. The title also dedicates a chapter to handling exam stress, showing readers how to reduce stress caused by study pressures and most effectively prepare for exams. Learn how to stress less and be at your best under pressure.
The Naked Roommate : and 107 other issues you might run into in college
This booik is packed with real-life advice on everything from managing money to managing stress. Hilarious and outrageous, with stories from students on over 100 college campuses this book covers the basics, and then some,
Books available at Evelyn S. Field Library:
Books on managing stress can be found in the library collection upstairs in the following sections:
BF575 - BF723 This section focuses on stress in our society and how it effects us in general or by gender or by ethnic differences.
RA785 This section focuses on relaxation techniques.
Principles and Practices of Stress Management
A comprehensive review of effective stress management techniques and their applications for treating psychological problems and enhancing physical health and performance. Leading experts present in-depth descriptions of their respective methods, including detailed case examples and step-by-step implementation guidelines. Chapter topics include mindfulness meditation, neurofeedback, EMDR, breathing retraining, heart rate variability biofeedback, exercise therapy, Qigong, sport psychophysiology, and basic mechanisms of stress and relaxation.
Guide to Stress Reduction
The increasingly frenetic pace of modern life can take a heavy toll on our physical and mental well-being, and we all have the headaches, backaches, and insomnia to prove it. This book presents a comprehensive program of exercises designed to alleviate stress with techniques such as autogenics, visualization, meditation, biofeedback, and desensitization.
Learn To Relax
This book provides techniques and step-by-step exercises for mental and physical relaxation in addition to demonstrating how creative problem-solving and decision-making can keep you from feeling overwhelmed and improve your ability to cope with everyday worries.
Tai Chi Health For Life
This is a comprehensive guide dealing with why tai chi is effective at helping millions improve their health, relieve stress and reverse the effects of aging, and helps advanced students upgrade their practice and beginners choose the appropriate style and teacher.
The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook
This workbook is designed to teach stress management and relaxation techniques and exercises. It includes chapters on how you react to stress, body awareness, progressive relaxation, meditation, self-hypnosis, thought stopping, goal setting and time management, assertiveness training and various other issues.
The Science of Stress Management
This book guides readers to a greater understanding of the mechanisms at work when stress is present and provides guidance for dealing with the physical and mental responses. While grounded in the science of stress, this work also helps readers employ those strategies that will best manage stress for better overall health.
10 Simple Solutions to Stress
This book provides practices and stress-rescue techniques to help you cope effectively with stressful moments throughout your day.