Sat.Oct 08, 2016 - Fri.Oct 14, 2016

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“Go back to your country!”

Jaeran Kim

[Photo credit: Trisha Arora. This image is from the Asian American Student series, “So where are you really from?” The goal is to challenge the stereotype of the “perpetual foreigner” that impacts Asian/Asian Americans in the United States.]. A couple of days ago, I read the NYT article, “ An Open Letter to the Woman Who Told My Family to Go Back To China ” by Michael Luo.

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060 -Behavior Modification Part 3 Shaping and Chaining

Counselor Toolbox podcast

Shaping means gradually altering someone's behavior by rewarding incremental changes, for example walking to jogging to running. Chaining means examining the behaviors, stimuli, reinforces and punishments leading up to a behavior. Backwards chaining means examining behaviors in revers to see how the person got here. It can be helpful in identifying triggers for upset, as well as interventions or behaviors the person currently uses to avoid the upset.

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061 – Hardiness and Resilience

Counselor Toolbox podcast

Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery: Hardiness and Resilience Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs Continuing Education (CE) credits can be earned for this presentation at [link] Objectives ~ Define resilience ~ Identify characteristics that make people more resilient and ways we can enhance those characteristics ~ Define Hardiness ~ Examine what hardiness is important […] Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery: Hardiness and Resilience Presented by: Dr.

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