Word: stress
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...UCLA and author of The Tending Instinct: Women, Men and the Biology of Relationships (Times Books). She says having a close friend can be a life-enhancing experience in more ways than you might expect. "There's good evidence that friendship is an important tool for down-regulating stress," she says. "It restores psychological well-being and has definite health-protective benefits. It also prolongs life...
...common in such situations, according to Lauren Solotar, chief psychologist at the May Institute, a counseling service in Norwood, Mass. "Incorporating everyone's demands takes time and energy when children live outside the home," Solotar says. "Figuring out how each person fits into the new blended family causes significant stress...
With such a performance already in the books, the pressure will be on Whitton this season to equal or better last year’s effort. And the primary source of that added stress may just be her internal monologue...
According to the new policy, “It is important to stress that this requirement assumes a willingness on the part of the student to engage in such a mediated dialogue with his/her parent(s) if this is deemed appropriate by the counselor...
...biggest academic miseries facing undergraduates is the prospect of ending up in a section led by a poorly-qualified or unprepared teaching fellow (TF) hired at the last minute. Simultaneously, eleventh-hour TFs hiring causes a great deal of stress for graduate students seeking employment. Both predicaments will be ameliorated by a new policy—announced by Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Peter T. Ellison on Tuesday—that will require faculty to hire their TFs in May for the fall and spring semesters of the following year...