  Strategies to Manage your Stress
"Just as people experience stress differently, the things that can work to relieve stress vary too. A number of suggestions for ways of coping with stress are listed [in this fact sheet.]"
This fact sheet is designed to assist cancer patients in dealing with cancer-related stress, however, it is equally applicable to other patients and health professionals more generally.
Strategies included in the fast fact sheet:
- Eat heathily and regularly;
- Become more aware of what triggers stress in you;
- Find ways to connect with others;
- Try to breathe slowing and gently during times of stress; etc.
This fact sheet is sourced from Ausmed Publications' textbook: 'Psychosocial Care of Cancer Patients: A health professional's guide to what to say and do', editors Dr Jemma Gilchrist & Dr Katharine Hodgkinson, (2008) chapter eight: 'Stress and Anxiety', by Dr Jemma Gilchrist.
Author: Dr Jemma Gilchrist
Dr Jemma Gilchrist is a senior clinical psychologist with clinical experience in psycho-oncology. Since 1999 she has worked in two separate tertiary oncology services providing psychosocial care to adults with a wide range of cancer diagnoses as well as their families and carers. Jemma has experience in educating other health professionals on the role of psychosocial support and interventions in the oncology setting. In addition she is an honorary associate of the University of Sydney and provides clinical supervision to clinical psychology interns at master's level. She completed her doctorate in 1995 in the area of children's eyewitness memory, and has published in the areas of interviewing children about stressful events, the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome and postnatal depression. She has longstanding interest in the impact and treatment of anxiety in the medically unwell.
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