Resources for Dealing With Disaster-related Stress During the Holiday Season
- Dealing With Grief During the Holiday Season
These tips from AARP offer advice for people who are experiencing grief that may be magnified during the holidays, such as grieving the loss of a loved one. The resources are also available in Spanish.
https://www.aarp.org/home-family/friends-family/info-12-2012/death-loss-christmas-holidays-goyer.html
- Holiday Stress and Solutions for Parents
This tip sheet from Stop Child Abuse Now offers solutions to common stressors that families may experience during the holidays. It is also available in Spanish.
https://www.scanva.org/2015/12/5-tips-for-parents-to-help-with-holiday-stress/
- Holidays, Celebrations and Traumatically Bereaved Children
In this webinar presenters discuss ways holidays and other personally meaningful dates can serve as trauma/grief reminders. One presenter points out how culture can dictate children's reactions to reminders and stresses the importance of therapists understanding their clients' culture. The presentation also addresses the various types of reminders: personal, public, and school related. In closing the presenters offer ways parents, teachers, and other adults can support traumatically bereaved children.
https://learn.nctsn.org/enrol/index.php?id=146
- Stress, depression and the holidays: Tips for Coping
The Mayo Clinic offers tips for preventing holiday stress and depression.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/stress/art-20047544
- Tips for Parents on Managing Holiday Stress
The American Psychological Association offers tips to help parents with healthy management of the stress that may come with the holiday season. It also includes information on when and how to seek professional help if the stress becomes unmanageable.
http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/parents-holiday.aspx