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• Anger Management by Jennifer F. Taylor & Shannon Tran
  This five-week workshop series provides a comprehensive understanding of anger as well as multiple strategies for management.

• Week I: Introduction to Anger Management

• Week II: Anger as an Emotion

• Week III: Anger as a Physiological Response

• Week IV: Anger as a Thought Process

• Week V: Anger Management through Interpersonal Training

• Assertiveness by Jeff Brooks-Harris
  This workshop for students introduces the concept of assertiveness and encourages participants to identify ways to increase the use of assertive behavior in their own lives.

• Career Decision Making by Jeff Brooks-Harris & Brad Adams
  This outline describes a brief introduction to the process of career decision making based on Holland's typology.

• Decision Making by David Gilles-Thomas
  This workshop for academic advisors or other university staff describes barriers to decision making that students frequently face and helps staff memebers decide when it is appropriate to refer undecided student for counseling.

• Diversity Skills for Leaders by Nahla Harik-Williams
  This workshop introduces student leaders to important diversity concepts and encourages leaders to make their groups more sensitive to religion, race, gender, and sexual orientation.

• Feel Better Fast: Help with Depression, Stress and Insomnia by Bert Epstein
  This workshop integrates behavioral, cognitive, and health approaches to help students overcome depression and anxiety. It includes ten handouts and can easily be adapted for use in an ongoing group.

• Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Coming Out Exercise by Barry Schreier
  This exercise simulates the losses that gay, lesbian, and bisexual people often experience when they come out of the closet. This activity can be used as part of a larger workshop on sexual orientation issues.

• How to Study in Less Time & Do Better by Bert Epstein
  This workshop introduces students to a variety of time management and study techniques including a 7-day study plan and 17 specific ways to improve studying.

• Internet Addiction / Obsession by Bert Epstein
  This workshop encourages participants to evaluate their time spent on the internet and provide strategies for those who may be spending too much time on-line.

• "It's My Turn": Speaking Up in Class Discussion by Laura Doto
  This workshop encourages students to be more active in class discussions by teaching them the roles of participant / active listener, facilitator, clarifier, and reporter.

• Listening, Reading, & Note-Taking by Bert Epstein
  This workshop introduces students to strategies to increase listening skills and utilize successful reading and note-taking strategies.
• Maintaining Self in Relationships by SUNY Buffalo Counseling Center Staff
  This workshop emphasizes the maintenance of basic rights within relationships.

• Risky Business: Reducing the Risk of Alcohol Abuse, Sexual Assault, and S.T.D.s by Paula Scatoloni
  This workshop helps participants recognize three interrelated areas of risk for college students and encourages planning for risk reduction.

• Sexual Assault Prevention: "Should we talk before we touch?" by Jeff Brooks-Harris & Christine Quemuel
  This workshop emphasizes clear communication as a way to prevent some types of sexual assaults. It uses a detailed scenario and worksheet to illustrate decisions that college students make in dating and sexual situations.
• Stress Management by Sherry Lynch
  This workshop helps participants choose between ten self-care techniques to reduce stress.

• Stress Management by Bert Epstein
  This workshop looks at indicators of stress as well as strategies for ahndling stress better.

• Stress Management by Don Rosen
  This is a link to an on-line stress management workshop using power point slides to teach about coping strategies that can be used in stressful situations.

• Study Skills by Sherry Lynch
  This workshop emphasizes memory, notetaking, and reading strategies.

• Test Anxiety by Bert Epstein
  This workshop uses a cognitive-behavioral approach to help students identify and respond to beliefs that support test anxiety.

• Test Taking Tips by Bert Epstein
  This workshop prepares students to perform well on different types of tests.

• Time Management by Sherry Lynch
  This workshop empahsizes scheduling as a key to time management.

• Time Management by SUNY Buffalo Counseling Center Staff
  This workshop emphasizes recognizing and adapting to your personal style.

• Wellness by Kimo Alameda
  This workshop introduces six areas of wellness and encourages participants to identify options and make plans for personal enhancement.
• EXPERIENCING DIVERSITY: Experiential Exercises for use in Multicultural and Diversity Workshops
  Edited by Jeff E. Brooks-Harris, Lori E. Davis, & Rosemary E. Simmons
  These 13 diversity workshop activities were originally compiled and distributed in 1993 and are now available here on Workshop Central:

• Circles of Diversity

• Birth Order Exercise

• Prejudice: An Awareness-Expansion Activity

• Stand Up For Diversity

• Remembering Prejudice Guided Imagery

• Homophobia Role Play

• Being a Minority on a Majority Campus: Checklist of Stressors and Barriers

• Being a Minority on a Majority Campus: Scenarios and Problem Solving

• Looking at White Privilege

• Problem-Solving Activity

• Growing Up Racially

• Being a Minority Guided Imagery

• Decreasing Conflict

Handouts / Workbooks / Overheads

Anger Management

• Anger Inventory

• Misconceptions about Emotions

• Indentifying Feelings

• Hidden Anger

• Progressive Muscle Relaxation

• Tips for Reducing Stress

• Stress Vaccination

• ABCDE Model

• 15 Types of Problematic Thinking

• Interpersonal Styles

• The Assertive Option Exercise

• Assertive Skills

• Tips for Resolving Conflict

• Tips for Diffusing Anger

Assertiveness

• Assertiveness Definitions

• Types of Assertion

Class Discussion Skills

• Facilitator Role

• Clarifier Role

• Reporter Role

• Oral Presentation and Discussion Techniques

• Critical Inquiry

• Resource List

Diversity Skills for Leaders

• Cultural Pursuit

• How to be Sensitive to Diversity in Your Organization

• Encouraging Sensitivity to Diversity Checklist

Facilitation Skills

• Facilitation Skills for Student Leaders Workbook

Feel Better Fast

• Feel Better Fast Overview

• Star Chart

• Sample Star Chart

• How to Reduce Negative Moods by Changing Your Thinking

• Cognitive Distortion Checklist

• How to Reduce Negative Moods with Pleasurable Activities

• Being Good to Your Body

• How to Get a Good Night's Sleep

• Thought Response Record

• How to Reduce Stress and Sadness

• How to Survive the Loss of a Love

How to Study in Less Time & Do Better

• The Seven-Day Study Plan

• 17 Ways to Improve Your Studying

• 17 Ways - Detailed Version

• Preparing for Examinations

• Concentration

Internet Addiction / Obsession

• Internet Addiction Quiz

• Why Is the Internet Addicting?

• How to Break the Habit: Responsible Surfing

Listening, Reading, & Note-Taking

• Listening Habits Questions

• When Instructors Talk Fast

• Cornell Method / SQ3R

Risky Business

• General Facts About Alcohol, Sexual Assault, STDs

• Continuum of Alcohol Use / Abuse (coming soon)

• Decision-Making Questionnaire (coming soon)

• Risky Business Guidelines (coming soon)

Sexual Assault Prevention

• Sexual Communication Worksheet

• Sexual Assault Prevention Strategies

Stress Management

• Stress Management: Ten Self-Care Techniques

• Managing Academic Stress: Action Plan

• Handling Your Stress

• Stress Questionnaire

• Indicators of Stress

• Five Stress Producing Situations for College Students

• On-Line Stress Management Workshop

Study Skills

• Study Skills Checklist

• Notetaking Strategies

• SQ3R - A Reading / Study System

Test Taking Tips

• Test Taking Tips

Time Management

• Time Management Questionnaire

• Where Does Time Go?

Wellness

• Six Areas of Wellness

• Defining Wellness and Brainstorming Options

• Incorporating Wellness into My Life