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Updated July 16, 2020
As international students at Purdue University, you face a variety of complications in addition to the rapidly changed environment all students are facing during the current world pandemic. You may be experiencing increased concerns about your academic future with certain recent governmental changes affecting visa status. Purdue CAPS stands with you with tele-therapy and tele-health treatment as well as a dedicated, ever-growing webpage addressing concerns that may affect you.
Have you experienced prejudice or discrimination during the COVID-19 outbreak? Please consider the following resources as suggestions to both validate these experiences and to help cope and care for your mental wellbeing.
Coping may also include ways to respond to discrimination.
Additional resources for coping with prejudice and stigma.
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In response to increasing xenophobia, particularly towards Asian/Asian American individuals in the U.S., Casiana Warfield, M.S., a Psychology Doctoral Intern at CAPS, created a presentation concerned with coping with discrimination. This presentation offers coping strategies (distress tolerance skills as described in Dialectical Behavior Therapy) as an immediate response to the trauma of discrimination, direct or vicarious in nature. While the historical background and introduction provided are tailored to the experience of Asians/Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic, discrimination survival skills may be applied with other marginalized individuals attempting to manage a crisis without an immediate solution or escape.
Distress Tolerance Skills: Your 6-Skill Guide to Navigate Emotional Crises courtesy of Sunrise
Brief Progressive Muscle Relaxation Video courtesy of myhealth.alberta.ca
15 minute Progressive Muscle Relaxation with Video courtesy of Relax for a While
30-minute audio only Progressive Muscle Relaxation video courtesy of students.dartmouth.edu
Relaxation Exercises Scripts PDF courtesy of traumacenter.org
Purdue University Office of Institutional Equity
Indiana Civil Rights Commission: 317-232-2600; toll free 1-800-628-2909, email drichmond@crc.in.gov
Victim Connect Resource Center: Hate Crimes
Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council: Stop AAPI Hate
New York: Emailing the Attorney General's Civil Rights Bureau at civil.rights@ag.ny.gov, or calling 1-800-771-7755
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