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This is particularly helpful when we feel overwhelmed or face a few challenges at once. Identifying what we could do to tackle the issues and creating a plan of action can help us feel more in control, therefore reducing the amount of pressure we are under. It can also help us to resolve the triggering situation, which would then take away the stress.

How to Manage Stress

Jim is an internationally recognised expert in stress management. Aware that health-care organisations were seeing only the tip of the iceberg in terms of those suffering from stress and, therefore, unable to do any significant preventative or early intervention work, he devised stress control over thirty years ago as an attempt to improve outcomes for individuals while, at the same time, hugely improving efficiency by offering evidence-based help to many more people than individual approaches would allow. At the time, this was a highly unusual approach. However following peer-reviewed research and evaluation showing how well this approach worked, the class has become widely available across the world.

If your dog is showing aggression or displaying any other problematic behaviours, talk to your vet and find a professional animal behaviourist to help. They will be able to help identify what’s causing the stress and give you advice on how to manage it.