Collin Parker
Fletcher Allen Public Relatons
802-847-2886

Feeling Stressed? Fletcher Allen Organizing Stress Management Support Groups

BURLINGTON, VT – Fletcher Allen Health Care’s Work Enhancement and Rehabilitation Center (WERC) is organizing a series of six-week Stress Management Support Groups that will meet throughout the fall of 2005.

Each group will be limited to between six and ten people and will meet weekly, beginning later in October.  The groups are open to all adults.

Among the topics that will be covered during the support group meetings are:

• Awareness of stressors and the emotional and physical reactions to them
• Recognizing what individuals can change regarding stress
• Reducing the intensity of emotional reactions to stress
• Learning to moderate physical reactions to stress
• Learning how to modify stress-related thoughts and reduce their negative effects
• Improving time management strategies and combating procrastination.

Interested participants will be individually evaluated prior to the group’s first meeting.  Most insurance plans will cover the cost of the meetings, minus a co-payment.  For more information, please contact Neil Jepson, M.S., Licensed Psychologist-Master, at (802) 847-0193.