Holiday Stress
While doing too much during the school term can create stress, the end of the semester crunch combined with holiday demands can add significantly to the stress levels of students, staff and faculty. Teachers have the challenge of managing their own stress levels and those of their students. The following articles describe common stressors at this time of year and provide strategies for coping with many of the holiday pressures.
Get Over Stress, Not Overstressed
(University of South Florida psychology professors weigh in on how students and professors should deal with end- of-the-year stress)
Teacher Stress: a critical review of recent findings and suggestions for future research directions. (while this article focuses primarily on studies of K-12 teachers in England it raises questions that may apply to teaching at the college level in the United States as well)
Learn to Cope with Holiday Stress (a look at family demands and sources of stress around the holidays)