Pat Walker Health Center's Counseling & Psychological Services is offering a four-week workshop series to help students develop skills that better manage their stress and anxiety.

The workshop series — Building Mastery: Skills for a Drama Free Life — spends each week focusing on different strategies and skills that help students feel more in control with the added pressures of being a college student:

• Week 1: Mindfulness — Skills to allow you to be present in the moment and reduce anxiety and judgment
• Week 2: Distress Tolerance — Strategies to problem solve feelings of crisis without making the situation worse
• Week 3: Interpersonal Effectiveness — Tools to develop effective communication and boundary setting in romantic, professional and other types of relationships
• Week 4: Emotion Regulation — Reducing intensity and duration of painful emotions 

Ultimately, students will leave this group with skills to more confidently and effectively manage distress in their lives.

The workshop begins Tuesday, Jan. 29, and meets from 10 to 11 a.m. at the Pat Walker Health Center in CAPS Group Room 2069.

No registration is required, and students do not need to be an existing CAPS client. For more information, call CAPS at 479-575-5276.

To view all CAPS groups and workshops, go to health.uark.edu.

About Pat Walker Health Center: Pat Walker Health Center supports students along their academic journey by providing efficient and convenient access to quality medical care, mental health care, and wellness and health promotion programs and services. The health center strives to enrich the academic and personal development of students by creating an inclusive environment that promotes positive behavior and lifestyle changes. Pat Walker Health Center is a department of the Division of Student Affairs.

About the Division of Student Affairs: The Division of Student Affairs supports students in pursuing knowledge, earning a degree, finding meaningful careers, exploring diversity, and connecting with the global community. We provide students housing, dining, health care resources, and create innovative programs that educate and inspire. We enhance the University of Arkansas experience and help students succeed, one student at a time.