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9 Simple Tips to Make Living Away from Home Way Less Scary

By Shana Lebowitz — 2013

Leaving home is no easy feat; homesickness, loneliness, stress, and anxiety are all common feelings among first-year college students. That’s why we’re here with advice on making the transition as smooth as possible.

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How to College: What to Know Before You Go (and When You’re There)

The transition from high school―and home―to college can be stressful. Students and parents often arrive on campus unprepared for what college is really like.

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Andrea Malkin Brenner, Lara Hope Schwartz
2019
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Facing Anxiety

Anxiety eclipses depression among college students, and the number who say it’s overwhelming them is on the rise. Campus counseling centers confront many challenges in trying to serve students, not the least of which is that mental health still has a stigma on campuses.

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2017
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The Ultimate College Student Health Handbook: Your Guide for Everything from Hangovers to Homesickness

College students facing their first illness, accident, or anxiety away from home often flip-flop between wanting to handle it themselves and wishing their parents could swoop in and fix everything. Advice from peers and “Dr. Google” can be questionable.

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Jill Grimes
2020
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The Campus Cure: A Parent’s Guide to Mental Health and Wellness for College Students

Did you know that one of four college students was diagnosed with a mental health disorder in the last year? College students are experiencing anxiety, depression, alcohol abuse, and other mental health issues at alarming rates in a landscape of growing academic, social, and financial pressures.

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Marcia Morris
2025
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Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic & Worry

Do you ever wonder what is happening inside your brain when you feel anxious, panicked, and worried? In Rewire Your Anxious Brain, psychologist Catherine Pittman and author Elizabeth Karle offer a unique, evidence-based solution to overcoming anxiety based in cutting-edge neuroscience and research.

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Catherine M. Pittman, Elizabeth M. Karle
2015
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Joseph Goldstein: Wisdom for Troubled Times

For many of us, the current environment, magnified by 24-hour news outlets and social media, has created a level of stress, fear and anger that impacts our lives and relationships.

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Joseph Goldstein
2018
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Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

This groundbreaking book, from one of the global innovators in the integration of brain science with psychotherapy, offers an extraordinary guide to the practice of “mindsight,” the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence.

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Daniel J. Siegel, Daniel Goleman (foreword)
2010
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Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

Joan Borysenko, co-founder and director of the Mind/Body Clinic at New England Deaconess Hospital/Harvard Medical School, describes the clinic’s ten-week program for learning to “mind the body” through a medical synthesis of neurology, immunology, and psychology.

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Joan Borysenko, Andrew Weil (foreword)
2007
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