title: Managing stress in today's age: a concise guide for emergency services personnel.
abstract: Many people in today's age feel overworked, overwhelmed, and worn out. Emergency services personnel are not exempt from this distress. The general life stress in society, coupled with the specific stress associated with emergency responding, leave many emergency services personnel in search of better strategies to cope more effectively. This paper begins to address this need by noting some of the major sources of stress in today's age for enhanced understanding of what is occurring and then reviewing the findings from four major studies of adaptive problem-solvers. It closes with six guidelines for managing stress that arise from these four studies and which have proven effective in an age of time scarcity.
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Department of Mental Health and Harvard Medical School, USA.
authors.forename: Raymond B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Flannery
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000517:prevention & control*