American Psychological Association
Teaching Is Fundamental
It's important for teachers to have a strong support system—especially in the first few years of their career. Help teachers' partners, spouses, and friends understand the most compassionate ways to provide emotional support with a...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Coping With Stress
Learn about common sources of stress and how you can find healthy ways to respond to them. Also includes contact information for reaching out to professionals who can help with the coping process. PDFs require Adobe Reader.
Science Museum, London
Making the Modern World: Stress Management
This website contains 7 chapters dealing with stress and ways to deal with it along with links to related materials.
PBS
Pbs.org: Education: 5 Ways to Reduce Stress and Feel Like Yourself Again
Teaching during a pandemic has undoubtedly been stressful, and it has left many teachers feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and anxious. For many teachers, these feelings have led to burnout and compassion fatigue, and for others the...
Other
Self Efficacy and Coping With Stress
This document discusses the concept of "self-efficacy" and its relationship to good health including stress reduction, weight-loss and exercise (physical activity).
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Stress, Coping, and Surgical Error
This is a five-question quiz pertaining the passage "Stress, Coping, and Surgical Error".
Curated OER
Kids Health: Health Problems Series: Stress [Pdf]
The activities in this instructional activity unit can help students to learn more about what stress is and how to effectively manage it. After identifying stressors, they will keep a record of how they handled stressful situations that...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Coping With Cancer: Novel Methods of Stress Management
Read this passage and study the graphics to complete a five-question quiz related to stress management for cancer patients.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Stress
This site from Family Doctor.org provides fundamental information on the issue of stress. Learn about frequent causes, your body's physical response, and ways you can cope with the stresses in your life.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Coping Mechanisms
Work, school, money - these are some of the most common stressors in everyday life. The effects of stress on a person's mental and emotional health may vary, but without the proper tools to cope, stress can have serious consequences. It...
Other
Zephyrus Education: Stress
While this site primarily addresses adults, with frequent references to job-related stress, middle and high school students can learn much about handling the stress in their lives, as well. It is easy to read and includes tools to help...
Other
International Stress Management Association
This non-profit organization is dedicated to helping people cope with life stresses. In addition there is basic information on recognizing and dealing with general and exam-related stress.
Other
The Proactive Coping Inventory (Pci): A Multidimensional Research Instrument
Paper presented at the 20th Annual Conference of Stress and Anxiety Research Society describing the development of a new psychometric tool, the Proactive Coping Inventory.
Other
Job Stress Network
The Center for Social Epidemiology offers study results, upcoming conference information, and other resources related to stress and methods of coping with it, especially in the work place.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Dealing With Divorce
Dealing with divorce means ultimately accepting new changes that will affect almost all aspects of a child's life. Coping with these changes can be easier if the child understands how to deal with their emotions of frustration,...
Other
Center for Young Women's Health: Dealing With Divorce and Separation
For teenagers, seeing parents separate is never an easy. It is difficult to understand why it happens or how to cope with the changes. This site provides a guide that is designed to help teens through this difficult period. Additional...
Other
Pbis World: Teach Coping Skills
This resource from PBIS provides reasons for teaching coping skills, when to teach coping skills, and how to teach coping skills. Numerous references are provided to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Create Your Plan to Deal With Frustration
Follow the lead of Thinky Pinky on how to cope with frustrations. Complete the four-step plan with examples from Thinky Pinky to help you keep going when you want to give up!
Read Works
Read Works: Animal Influence
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how animals can help people cope with stress and difficult emotions. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
ReachOut USA
Reach Out Usa: How Can I Develop Coping Strategies?
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page has tips for how to cope with challenging situations and events.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Arthur Family Health: Resilience
A learning experience that provides some resources, activities, and videos to help you and your child cope and build resilience after a tragedy or a disaster.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Out on a Limb: A Guide to Getting Along
This site helps children learn how to get along with each other and peacefully resolve conflicts and disagreements. It provides different situations and children have to make choices with different consequences.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Being Afraid
Everyone is afraid of something. Maybe you're afraid of heights, your friend might be scared of the big monster that lives in his closet, and your little sister is spooked by circus clowns. We all have different fears, and they may even...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime" by Mark Haddon
Christopher Boone sets out to investigate the suspicious death of his neighbor's dog but discovers more about his own family mysteries. Along the way, readers learn about the complex beauty of autistic thinkers. Selected (6) reading...