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Other links provide information about the medical basis for stress, causes for stress, results of stress,
recognizing stress, ways to handle, relieve, and overcome stress, and job-related stress.
Sleep
Regular sleep habits help you to perform at your best while a lack of sleep can cause poor concentration
or attention. Recent studies have shown that young adults require as much as nine hours of sleep per
night in order to function well.
There are links to several sites, which provide information regarding all aspects of sleep. Information
at these sites includes the physiology of sleep, sleep disorders, clinical sleep medicine, sleep research,
federal and state information, sleep-related education, business-related groups, and a question and
answer forum.
Public Health and Disease
The federal government has three helpful web sites with information regarding public health and
disease:
• Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov
• The Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS) http://www.hhs.gov
• U.S. Public Health Service’s Office on Women’s Health http://www.4woman.gov
Alcohol and Substance Abuse
There is a great deal of information about alcohol and substance abuse to be found on the web. Some
helpful links include:
• The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
http://www.casacolumbia.org
• The Alcohol and Drug Education Project of Hobart & William Smith Colleges
http://alcohol.hws.edu
• The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
http://ncadi.samhsa.gov
Emotional Well Being
“Good judgment comes from experience,
and often experience comes from bad judgment.”
—Rita Mae Brown
Take a moment to look at the emotional management skills that follow. These learning skills are
from the affective domain (in the Classification of Learning Skills) and have to do with emotions and
emotional responses.