Columbia University Health Services

Alice! Health Promotion Program

• Alcohol Workshop
  (For Students)
  This workshop will give students the opportunity to identify physiological changes caused by alcohol, discuss the effects of high-risk drinking, identify ways to reduce negative consequences associated with high-risk drinking, and discuss ways to help someone who may have a problem with alcohol.
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• Drug Workshop
  (For Students)
  During this workshop students will identify drugs used on college campuses, discuss the impact of drugs on the body, define and discuss use, misuse/abuse, and addiction, and discuss social trends and perceptions of drug use among college students.
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• Risky Business Workshop
  (For Students)
  During the course of this workshop, students will discuss the impact of alcohol on decision-making, discuss the relationship between alcohol and sexual assault, and identify actions students can take to decrease the possibility of sexual assault.
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Counseling & Psychological Services

• Adult Children of Alcoholics Support Group
  (For Students)
  Information/support group focusing on relationships and self-esteem issues relating to being a child of an alcoholic. Facilitated by Christine Li, Ph.D.
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• Early Recovery from Substance Abuse Support Group
  (For Students)
  A support group for students in the early stages of recovery from alcohol or other substance abuse. Facilitated by Anne Goldfield, Ph.D. 
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• Smoking Cessation Workshop
  (For Students)
  During the fall and spring academic semesters, PCMS sponsors a Smoking Cessation Program for students who want to learn more about quitting or are ready to start. Our clinical staff will provide you with education and counseling about a variety of modalities available to smokers who want to quit, inclduing support groups, relaxation techniques, acupuncture, nicotine replacement and other medication options. They will help you learn what a Quit Smoking program looks like, including strategies to get through each day, common pitfalls, relapses, what to do with the “nic fits,” tailor a quit smoking program that is right for you, and support you throughout the process, for as long as it takes you to finally be free of the habit. Our program is specifically scheduled for the early evening when most students are available and are most likely to be having their worst tobacco cravings of the day. You can start at any point during the semester.
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Counseling & Psychological Services

• Bulimia Support Group
  (For Students)
  A support group for individuals struggling with issues associated with current or past bulimia. Facilitated by Alisa Schwartz, Ph.D.
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• Eating Concerns Support Group
  (For Students)
  A group for women with problematic behaviors associated with food.  Facilitated by Candace Kohler, Psy.D.
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Alice! Health Promotion Program

• Communication, Assertiveness, and Success Workshop
  (For Students)
  This workshop will give students the opportunity to identify and practice effective communication strategies, develop and practice techniques to clearly and confidently express your opinions, values, and emotions, and identify and practice how to handle difficult or stressful communication situations.
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• Stress Management Workshop
  (For Students)
  During the course of this workshop, students will identify personal stressors, list physiological changes triggered by stress, identify and practice a variety of stress management strategies, such as meditation and relaxation techniques, and identify creative ways to fit stress management into a demanding schedule.
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Counseling & Psychological Services

• Bereavement Support Group
  (For Students)
  Coping with the loss of a loved one, either from long ago or in the recent past. Facilitated by Victoria Grosso, Ph.D. 
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• Bipolar Students Support Group
  (For Students)
  An informational/supportive group for students who are coping with bipolar disorder. Facilitated by Cory P. Frank, Psy.D.
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• Coping with Social Shyness Support Group
  (For Students)
  A group to discuss social shyness/anxiety with peers and others, speaking in class/groups, speaking up for yourself, and more. Facilitated by Judith Hanlon, Ph.D.
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Alice! Health Promotion Program

• Body Image Workshop
  (For Students)
  During this workshop students will discuss ways men and women are portrayed in the media and how this impacts body image, develop skills to talk with a friend or roommate with body image issues, and identify strategies to enhance body image.
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• Fitness Workshop
  (For Students)
  This workshop will give students the opportunity to discuss benefits of regular exercise, develop fitness goals and a plan to accomplish them, and identify barriers to exercising and ways to overcome them.
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• Healthy Eating and Eating Behaviors Workshop
  (For Students)
  During the course of this workshop, students will discuss the role food plays in physical, social, and emotional health, create a plan for how to eat healthy while a student at CU, identify factors that interfere with healthy eating, define healthy vs. unhealthy eating behavior, and discuss ways to help someone with eating issues.
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Office of Disability Services

• On Your Mark, Get Set, and we’re off to a successful semester! Workshop
  (For Students)
  Interested in getting off on the right foot? Bring your syllabi to this workshop and we will provide the rest! This interactive workshop will highlight the importance of setting realistic goals, and creating an individualized organizational system that is right for you.
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• The Road to Self-Advocacy Workshop
  (For Students)
  As a college student, the role of advocacy becomes your responsibility. Don’t worry; we are here to support the transition! This workshop series breaks down the process of becoming an educated self- advocate. Workshop 1: Educating yourself. After analyzing and interpreting your documentation, you work to create a carefully crafted statement that accurately describes who you are and what your specific needs are. Workshop 2: Here you focus on the ins and outs of the disclosure process and your role in educating others. Workshop 3: You will learn about the power and importance of reflection in self-advocacy.
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• Note-taking for Anyone BUT Dummies! Workshop
  (For Students)
  We are all familiar with the linear, “roman numeral” approach to taking notes. However, does it really work? Do you return to your notes outside of class? In this workshop, you will explore alternative methods of note-taking. You will look at ways you can really access your notes for studying purposes.
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• Procrastination 101 Workshop
  (For Students)
  You will walk away from this workshop with a clear understanding of what procrastination is and why we do it. More important than simply gaining an understanding, you will be provided with techniques on ways to turn your procrastination into constructive time.
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• Speaking Out in Class Workshop
  (For Students)
  Anxious about speaking during class? Want to participate, but didn’t get through all of the reading? Not to worry! This workshop will provide you with the skills you need to increase your level of participation in the classroom. You will receive formulas to help articulate what it is you want to say, in a meaningful way.
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• Mount Syllabus: Climbing to the top without falling off! Workshop
  (For Students)
  A syllabus is carefully structured and created by your professors to serve as an educational tool, not a source of anxiety. This workshop will provide strategies to help turn this scary document into a useful tool that can be utilized to preview class materials, prioritize your study time, prepare for exams, and even create strong thesis statements for research papers.
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Alice! Health Promotion Program

• Relationships and Friends Workshop
  (For Students)
  This workshop will give students the opportunity to identify techniques to develop and maintain relationships, practice active listening and effective communication strategies, identify and practice strategies to improve or enhance relationships, and discuss when and how to end a relationship.
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Counseling & Psychological Services

• Breaking Up is Hard to Do Workshop
  (For Students)
  Recovering from a break-up? Wondering what went wrong? Having a hard time coping? Come to a discussion about the process of getting over someone that you’ve loved. Food and refreshments served. Facilitated by Victoria Grosso, Ph.D. Mon., Feb. 13, 8pm, 210 East Campus Residence Hall.
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Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Program

• Relationship Violence 101 Workshop
  (For Students, Faculty, and Staff)
  This interactive workshop invites participants to discuss the prevalence, dynamics and effects of effects of relationship violence. Participants will become familiar with the cycle of violence, common forms of power and control, warning signs of abuse and basic safety planning. Participants will learn concrete supportive strategies for how to help a friend who is in an abusive relationship, and will become familiar with on campus support services, including adjudication and reporting options. This workshop can be presented to students and/or to professionals. Depending on the audience, presenters will include SVPRP professional staff and/or Peer Educators.
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• Relationship Violence 201: Towards a Partnership Model Workshop
  (For Students, Faculty, and Staff)
  This workshop starts with the premise that we want to build healthy relationships not only with our intimate partners, but with the world around us. It explores the complexities of dominate-subordinate power relations by examining the intersection of gender, class, sexuality and race. This workshop uses participants' experience as well as current research and statistics as a foundation to understand relationship violence across sexual identities. This workshop also includes a look at what participants can do to build relationships built on partnership principles. This workshop can be presented to students and/or to professionals. Depending on the audience, presenters will include SVPRP professional staff and/or Peer Educators.
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Alice! Health Promotion Program

• Presentation Power Workshop
  (For Students)
  This workshop will give students the opportunity to identify barriers to speaking comfortably to a group, discuss stress reduction methods useful in overcoming fear, and practice skills for making effective presentations.
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Counseling & Psychological Services

• International Students Support Group
  (For Students)
   A group for international students that will address changes in relationships with friends and family back home, developing new relationships, negotiating academic pressures and any other concerns you may have. Facilitated by Yaniv Phillips, Ph.D.
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• Mom and Dad are Stalking Me by Cellphone Workshop
  (For Students)
  Do your parents call you on your cell phone too much? Is it hard to tell them to give you space? Come to a discussion group to talk about how the new technology both helps and hinders balancing life at college and life at home. Food and refreshments served. Facilitated by Margaret Walker, Ph.D. Wed. Jan. 25, 8pm, 112A Hartley Residence Hall. 
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• When You Don’t Want To Come Home on the Weekend Workshop
  (For Students)
  Do you feel pressure to come home on the weekends? Is it hard to say no to your parents when they ask you to come home and you feel the need to stay at school? Come to a discussion group about how to handle this dilemma. Food and refreshments served. Facilitated by Margaret Walker, Ph.D. Wed. Mar. 1, 8pm, 112A Hartley Residence Hall. 
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• Managing the Mentor Relationship Workshop
  (For Grad Students)
  Having a good relationship with a mentor can play a key role in your graduate school experience and future success. Come and discuss some of the trickier aspects of the relationship: managing boundaries, keeping expectations realistic and getting reasonable needs met. Tues. Mar. 7, 11am.
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Alice! Health Promotion Program

• Contraception 101 Workshop
  (For Students)
  During this workshop students will discuss current contraceptive options, identify benefits and barriers of various contraceptive methods, and identify and practice ways to discuss contraception with a partner(s).
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• Safer Sex Workshop
  (For Students)
  During the course of this workshop, students will discuss STI symptoms, transmission, and treatment, identify ways to reduce the risk of STI transmission and unplanned pregnancy, develop skills to talk with partner(s) about prevention strategies, and identify appropriate on- and off-campus resources for safer sex.
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• Sexuality Workshop
  (For Students)
  This workshop will give students the opportunity to identify personal values regarding sexuality, discuss the role of pleasure in sexuality, strengthen self-confidence in your sexual values, and identify ways to communicate sexual values to a partner.
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Counseling & Psychological Services

• Being Gay and Being a Grad Student Workshop
  (For Grad Students)
  It may not be an unusual combination, yet it is one that affects us every day. Come and discuss the exhilarating, trying, or mundane aspects of being gay and being a graduate student at Columbia. Tues. Feb. 7, 1pm.
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• HIV+ Support Group
  (For Students)
  An informational/support and discussion group for individuals diagnosed with HIV. Facilitated by Laura Pinsky, MSW.
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• Queer Students of Color Support Group
  (For Students)
  A safe, confidential space to discuss and obtain support around the challenge of negotiating numerous identities. Facilitated by Karen Singleton, Ph.D.
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Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Program

• Consent Workshop
  (For Students)
  This interactive and engaging workshop, designed by students for students, will introduce participants to a definition of consent based on clarity, mutuality and enthusiastic participation. Participants will discuss the ways in which gender role socialization and traditional expectations about sex and sexuality create barriers for open communication with intimate partners. Participants will brainstorm creative and comfortable ways of giving and obtaining clear consent.
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Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Program

• First Responder Training
  (For Faculty and Staff)
  The First Responder training provides administrators, faculty members and staff with concrete skills and strategies to respond to student disclosures of sexual assault. Participants will review the prevalence and common dynamics of sexual assault on campus and discuss common reactions to sexual assault. Participants will learn concrete supportive strategies and become familiar with on campus support services, including adjudication and reporting options. This training is recommended for all staff and faculty with significant student contact.
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• Sexual Assault 101 Workshop
  (For Students, Faculty, and Staff)
  This interactive workshop invites participants to discuss the prevalence, dynamics and effects of sexual assault. Common myths about sexual assault survivors and offenders will be addressed with accurate statistics and information. Participants will learn concrete supportive strategies and become familiar with on campus support services, including adjudication and reporting options. Participants will brainstorm sexual violence prevention and risk reduction strategies. This workshop can be presented to students and/or to professionals. Depending on the audience, presenters will include SVPRP professional staff and/or Peer Educators.
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• Relationship Violence 101 Workshop
  (For Students, Faculty, and Staff)
  This interactive workshop invites participants to discuss the prevalence, dynamics and effects of effects of relationship violence. Participants will become familiar with the cycle of violence, common forms of power and control, warning signs of abuse and basic safety planning. Participants will learn concrete supportive strategies for how to help a friend who is in an abusive relationship, and will become familiar with on campus support services, including adjudication and reporting options. This workshop can be presented to students and/or to professionals. Depending on the audience, presenters will include SVPRP professional staff and/or Peer Educators.
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• Consent Workshop
  (For Students)
  This interactive and engaging workshop, designed by students for students, will introduce participants to a definition of consent based on clarity, mutuality and enthusiastic participation. Participants will discuss the ways in which gender role socialization and traditional expectations about sex and sexuality create barriers for open communication with intimate partners. Participants will brainstorm creative and comfortable ways of giving and obtaining clear consent.
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• How to Help a Friend Training
  (For Students)
  A “first responder” training for students, How to Help a Friend, will familiarize participants with common dynamics and effects of sexual assault. Participants will learn and practice concrete support strategies and become familiar with on campus support services, including adjudication and reporting options.
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• Sexual Misconduct Policy and Disciplinary Procedure Training
  (For Students, Faculty, and Staff)
  This training will familiarize participants with the University policy on Sexual Misconduct, expected community standards of behavior, and the Disciplinary Procedure for Sexual Misconduct. Participants have the opportunity to discuss definitions of consent, coercion and sexual misconduct. Procedural steps of the adjudication process will be explained in-depth, including how complaints are initiated rights and responsibilities for complainants and respondents, standards of evidence, and sanctioning procedures. This workshop can be presented to students and/or to professionals. Depending on the audience, presenters will include SVPRP professional staff and/or Peer Educators.
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• Allies: Men’s Role and Responsibility in Preventing Violence against Women Workshop
  (For Students, Faculty, and Staff)
  This workshop explores how men can be allies with women in preventing violence against women. Participants explore what every day steps men can take to become part the solution in creating a safe and respectful campus culture.This workshop can be presented to students and/or to professionals. Depending on the audience, presenters will include SVPRP professional staff and/or Peer Educators.
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• Homophobia 101: Making the Connection Workshop
  (For Students, Faculty, and Staff)
  This is an introductory workshop that covers the basics of homophobia and heterosexism, starting with definitions and exploring misconceptions and stereotypes. Participants use personal experience to understand the effects of homophobia on the daily lives of LGBTQQ people, and to explore the connections between homophobia and other forms of oppression. This workshop can be presented to students and/or to professionals. Depending on the audience, presenters will include SVPRP professional staff and/or Peer Educators.
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• Understanding Sexism 101 Workshop
  (For Students, Faculty, and Staff)
  This workshop explores what women and men experience under the system of sexism. Participants will explore traditional gender roles, popular misconceptions, and our own life experiences to understand how sexism has affected us and our relationships with one another. As a result of this workshop, participants will learn strategies to become agents of positive change. This workshop can be presented to students and/or to professionals. Depending on the audience, presenters will include SVPRP professional staff and/or Peer Educators.
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• Relationship Violence 201: Towards a Partnership Model Workshop
  (For Students, Faculty, and Staff)
  This workshop starts with the premise that we want to build healthy relationships not only with our intimate partners, but with the world around us. It explores the complexities of dominate-subordinate power relations by examining the intersection of gender, class, sexuality and race. This workshop uses participants' experience as well as current research and statistics as a foundation to understand relationship violence across sexual identities. This workshop also includes a look at what participants can do to build relationships built on partnership principles. This workshop can be presented to students and/or to professionals. Depending on the audience, presenters will include SVPRP professional staff and/or Peer Educators.
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• Inaction is Action: Understanding Bystanders Workshop
  (For Students, Faculty, and Staff)
  Bystanders are people who witness situations and don’t intervene because “it’s none of my business,” or because they assume that they cannot do anything to affect change. This interactive workshop engages students participants to explore how the everyday actions (or inactions) of bystanders can encourage or discourage sexual and relationship violence in their communities. This workshop can be presented to students and/or to professionals. Depending on the audience, presenters will include SVPRP professional staff and/or Peer Educators.
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