Sentences with phrase «alleviate social stress»

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So while it's advisable to make positive, new social connections — reach out to friendly neighbors, find a support group, meet up with like - minded parents who won't judge or antagonize you — it's important to know that there are a lot of other things you can do to alleviate your stress.

Health psychologist David Victorson, the principal investigator of the study and an associate professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, researches the emotional stress of active surveillance and how mindfulness training helps alleviate the anxiety.

Traditionally, cognitive behavioral therapists have helped people process unresolved trauma, but more recently psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers — many working with US military veterans — acknowledge that embodiment practices such as yoga enriched with mindfulness practices can have more impact in alleviating the symptoms that lead to both reactive behaviors and stress related disease.

According to the study, dog ownership can help alleviate psychosocial stress factors (such as social isolation), depression and loneliness.

A pet can reduce stress, increase social interaction and alleviate feelings of loneliness.

For the parties, it means reduction in stress, saving of time and costs, satisfactory resolution; for society, economic and social benefits, alleviating conflict and achieving harmony.

A qualitative study of pregnant Indigenous women in Perth found that women commonly referred to smoking as normal, a stress release, a low health priority and a social experience, and commented that it was difficult to quit because they were surrounded by smoking from their family and household members.11 In the social context of high smoking rates and large numbers of adults per household, smoking may offer an opportunity to alleviate stress, acting as a social lubricant in «time - out, yarning, and sharing with others».11 This provides a critical target for intervention in antenatal smoking; in order to help women to quit, it seems that consideration of and involvement with the social context in which women live are essential.