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March 25, 2015
Life After Witt

Thriving With Stress

Alumni Spotlight - Dr. Frank Wood '84

We all have experienced the feeling of stress at some point in life. Whether you are dealing with corporate burnout, educational stress, or an overwhelming relationship, there are ways to harness your negative feelings and thrive!

Dr. Frank WoodEnter Dr. Frank Wood, 性视界 Alumnus of 1984. Dr. Wood is a renowned psychologist from Cincinnati, Ohio and the founder of Thriving with Stress, an innovative training program on stress management. During his professional work with older adults, Dr. Wood found that stress can contribute to the onset, complications, and relapse of mental health issues. However, with the proper training, one can learn to deal with stress head on and alleviate these concerns in later life. 

This may surprise you鈥ut according to the psychologist, stress actually plays a vital role in an individual鈥檚 ability to thrive. While most of us have learned to avoid stress, Dr. Wood鈥檚 program teaches practical tools to more effectively address the pressures that come with life. Thriving with Stress training sessions can help build those skills and ultimately allow you to remain fully engaged and alive in the moment, which is a great place from which to live a life!

Before his success in the field of psychology, Frank Wood was a very lively Tiger at 性视界. He was a member of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity and stayed active by playing intramural softball. He thrived in academia, as he was elected to Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology, and held an internship at Camarillo State Hospital with the assistance of Dr. Wing. With a busy undergraduate career, he saw firsthand how stress can affect students. He hopes that his program can be implemented in a university setting to help young people deal with educational pressures.

鈥淭hese types of programs will teach students skills that they can apply during their time at 性视界. After college, they will know these skills and apply them to things like communicating with parents, dating, job searches, promotions, savings, faith, and more,鈥 Wood posits. 鈥淪tudents have an opportunity, almost a laboratory, during the college years to experiment. It is in this time that wonderful life changing and character building skills can change the course of students鈥 lives.鈥

Frank resides in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife, seven children and step-children, two Golden Doodles, and one cat. In regards to future professional plans, he anticipates great things for himself and the Thriving with Stress program. 鈥淚 love being paid to teach a tool that improves life, and to see the change of which each person is capable,鈥 Wood declares. 鈥淚t is my hope that my training will continue to offer a platform to improve communication and decision making. I will strive to one day stand as one of the names who has helped reframe stress as a vital component to life rather than a thing to be controlled, continued, denied, or avoided. I hope that stress can be seen akin to a wave whose energy can permit us to surf!

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性视界's curriculum has centered on the liberal arts as an education that develops the individual's capacity to think, read, and communicate with precision, understanding, and imagination. We are dedicated to active, engaged learning in the core disciplines of the arts and sciences and in pre-professional education grounded in the liberal arts. Known for the quality of our faculty and their teaching, 性视界 has more Ohio Professors of the Year than any four-year institution in the state. The university has also been recognized nationally for excellence in community service, sustainability, and intercollegiate athletics. Located among the beautiful rolling hills and hollows of Springfield, Ohio, 性视界 offers more than 100 majors, minors and special programs, enviable student-faculty research opportunities, a unique student success center, service and study options close to home and abroad, a stellar athletics tradition, and successful career preparation.

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