University Health Systems Home Health and Hospice offers a number of grief support programs. These are not limited to families of hospice patients.

• Teen to Teen — A five-week bereavement support group for ages 14-17.
• Memory Bear Workshop — A one-day workshop for family members to craft bears from the clothing of their loved ones.
• Survival Skills Workshop — A six-series workshop designed to help family members dealing with the loss of a loved one to learn to handle unfamiliar areas, such as car and home maintenance.
• Creative Arts Healing Program —Family members create a clay “burden bowl” and then place stones inside it to symbolize their burdens.

Call 847-1236 or email angelina.brittle@pcmh.com.

GriefShare, a weekly support group featuring a workbook, a discussion and a video seminar on grief and recovery topics, meets locally at Parker’s Chapel and Unity Free Will Baptist churches and Covenant and St. James United Methodist churches. Call the church or visit www.griefshare.org.

The Daily Reflector website includes information about a number of area support groups. Visit www.reflector.com/service-directory/reflector

Interested in learning more about cinema therapy? Here are some suggested titles:

• “E-motion Picture Magic: A Movie Lovers’ Guide to Healing and Transformation,” by Birgit Wolz
• “Reel Therapy: How Movies Inspire You to Overcome Life’s Problems,” by Gary Solomon
• “The Motion Picture Prescription: Watch This Movie and Call Me in the Morning: 200 Movies to Help You Heal Life’s Problems,” Gary Solomon
• “Rent Two Films and Let’s Talk in the Morning: Using Popular Movies in Psychotherapy,” by John W. Hesley
• “Movie Therapy,” by Bernie Wooder
• “Positive Psychology At The Movies: Using Films to Build Virtues and Character Strengths,” by Ryan M. Niemiec and Danny Wedding

Some potential films recommended for cinema therapy:

• “City of Angels” (1998), with Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan
• “Truly, Madly, Deeply” (1996), with Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman
• “Ghost “(1990), with Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze
• “Moonlight Mile” (2002) with Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon
• “Ordinary People” (1980) with Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore
• “Shadowlands” (1994) with Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger
• “Steel Magnolias” (1989), with Sally Field and Shirley MacLaine
• “Beaches” (1988), with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey
• “Terms of Endearment” (1983), with Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger
• “Corrina, Corrina” (1994) with Whoopi Goldberg and Ray Liotta
• “A River Runs through It” (1992), with Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer
• “Whose Life Is It Anyway” (1991), with Richard Dreyfuss
• “Brian’s Song” (1971), with James Caan and Billy Dee Williams
• “Message in a Bottle” (1999), with Kevin Costner and Robin Wright
• “One True Thing” (1998), with Meryl Streep, Renee Zellweger and William Hurt
• “My Girl” (1991), with Dan Akroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky
• “The Bucket List” (2007), with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman