To help parents and their collegeaged children understand the causes, warning signs and effects of stress, we asked Rhonda Pruitt, LPC, Counselor Senior in Counseling Services at Arizona State University, to provide insight and advice on incorporating healthy ways of managing stress during the college experience. Here’s what she shared.
Q Can you speak to some common areas of stress for college students that may differ from the pressures and stressors they’re used to from their high school education?
Coming to college and living on campus is often the first experience students have living away from home or being completely responsible for charting their educational goals. With that can come a level of independence that necessarily stretches and, at times, feels
