Stressbusters is a robust wellness program that’s creating healthier campuses through consistent outreach and training. At its core, the Stressbusters technique teaches students to be prevention advisors who calm and connect thousands of students and staff with support services and free backrubs at events all over campus. For the same cost as a few one-time speakers, the program’s mobility and
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Jordan Friedman, MPH created Stressbusters. He is a national leader in college health, stress management author and speaker, and former director of Columbia University’s health education program and Go Ask Alice website. Jordan works with schools to boost consistent stress reduction and wellness on campus.
Get Stressbusters working for you and your community
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Contact Jordan Friedman and Stressbusters Central to talk about how the program can best match your school’s size, culture and prevention goals.
The American College Personnel Association (ACPA) showcased Stressbusters during its 2009 annual convention in Washington, D.C.. ACPA’s Commission for Wellness features the Stressbusters program in their March newsletter (see p. 4).
Students are stressed out, and half of them who are moderately to severely depressed are unaware of campus counseling resources. Stressbusters is helping to reverse this reality. Learn more in this Student Life article.
Schools use Stressbusters to help prevent H1N1 by modeling hand hygiene and providing flu information updates. Click here for Stressbusters vs. H1N1 press release.
From Wash U’s Record: Stressbusters Makes Life Easier on Danforth campus
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Continuously Reducing Student Stress with Evidence-Based and Cost-Effective Prevention
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•Stressbusters helps prevent mental illness and unhealthy behaviors by continuously decreasing stress, reducing student isolation, modeling self-care and teaching healthy coping skills.
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•Stressbusters visibly demonstrates that health services are working to address stress and other mental health issues with interventions that meet students where they live, study and play.
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•Stressbusters connects with students by using a positive and sustainable service to deliver prevention and resource information about counseling, immunization, insurance selection and other critical activities.
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•Stressbusters works to reduce unnecessary health service usage by providing information, resources and access to staff at frequent offsite events that routinely draw hundreds in the community.
Stress-Busting Program Features
-Rapid start-up
-Expert program installation
-Continuous support and tools
-On-site training
-On-line training reinforcement
-Leader development
-Student-led program coordination
-Built-in assessment
-Web-based program management
-School-to-school resource sharing
Far-Reaching Benefits
47%
of students say they drink to reduce stress
38%
say they smoke to reduce stress
33%
say stress is an obstacle to academic performance
From the Center for Alcohol and Substance Abuse (2006), National College Health Assessment (2008) and mtvU/AP College Students Mental Health Poll (2009)
47%
with moderate to severe depression are unfamiliar with campus counseling services
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Reducing Stress, Loneliness and More
Significant decreases in sadness, overwhelmed feelings and muscle tension among participants have also been found in formal assessment of the Stressbusters program. Additionally, significant increases in predicted ability to cope with stressors and complete tasks reported (2009).
“My students’ grades were stellar and I believe that your Stressbusters team contributed to their success because they went into their exams relaxed and rejuvenated.”
-Dean of Students Office
