Grief and Loss

The Self-Development Center provides a media library of personal growth and academic skills programs available to students, faculty, and staff at George Mason University. Media programs may be used in the Self-Develoipment Center during the hours the Center is open. Faculty and staff at GMU may check out programs overnight or over a weekend. Students may check out programs to use for classroom or group presentations. These programs are not for sale or rent to persons outside of the University. If the program is marked with an asterisk (*), ask the receptionist for the handout or written materials that accompany it.
Accepting Change-Moving On (60 min.*)
It is important to accept the changes that occur in your life and to adapt to them. This autogenic tape will give you insight into the ways you can let go of your fear and accept changes that happen. (audio)		 Coming Apart (270 min.*)
This 3-part series offers a hand to hold through the pain of parting. It includes exercises to help you work through the ending of your relationship and emerge from its ashes a stronger, more vital, whole person. (audio)
Don't Take My Grief Away (60 min.*)
A complete and helpful guide to facing the loss of a loved one. (audio)

Losing a Parent (130 min.*)
When a parent dies, an extraordinary cycle of experience begins. The outer changes that touch you directly -- the family turmoil and loss -- are linked to a profound inner transformation. This 2 tape program will help you see this loss as a prelude to a personal rebirth leading to a new life. (audio)

 

How to Survive the Loss of a Love (own pace)
When an emotional injury takes place, the body begins a process as natural as the healing of a physical wound. This book will help the survivor understand his/her loss and provide emotional first-aid to those who are grieving. (book)
Necessary Losses (own pace)
Judith Viorst argues that through the loss of our mothers protection, the loss of the impossible expectations we bring to relationships, the loss of our younger selves, and the loss of our loved ones through separation and death, we gain deeper perspective, true maturity and fuller wisdom about life. (book) 		Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends (90 min.*)
This two-tape program will help you face the difficult process of recovery after the end of a love relationship, especially a divorce. (audio)
Saying Goodbye (26 min.)
In this tape, Jamie Guth talks with people who have experienced loss to find out how they dealt with their grief. It is possible to learn how to say goodbye from others who have themselves experienced loss. (video)

Surviving Loss (90 min.)
These two tapes provide guidelines and specific strategies for surviving a loss. Exercises to help the emotional healing process are examined. (audio)

 

To Touch a Grieving Heart (40 min.)
This video will help you provide assistance to others whom you know are dealing with grief. (video)

Understanding Grief (25 min.) (video)

The Legacy of Unresolved Loss (video)
Losing a Parent (130 min.) (video) Mother Loss (120 min.) (audio)
Coping with Loss (audio) Motherless Daughters (audio)

For more information about Counseling Center services, call 703-993-2380 or come by the Center in Student Union I, Room 364.

Send comments or questions to webmaster Diane Knight at dknight@gmu.edu. Updated September 7, 2001.