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Tip of the Week: Stress Continuum Assessment Tool
July 20, 2025, The Association
Use this simple visual to check in on your current stress level, and be sure to share it with your team, too
In last week’s members-only Leadership Summit, Certified Compassion Fatigue and Grief Educator Jessica Dolce shared some powerful tools for addressing stress in her session on Stress First Aid: The 7 Cs of Caring for Yourself and Others.
To help you, as a leader, recognize and address your stress reactions, Dolce offered tips based on a model originally developed by the National Center for PTSD. You can start today by checking in on yourself, using the Stress Continuum Visual Assessment Tool. This simple infographic can help you determine what your stress level is right now.
Learn more on Stress First Aid
Learn more on Jessica Dolce and her work
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