Attitude and Self-esteem

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Mason Resources

 The Counseling Center provides individual and group counseling by professional counselors and clinical psychologists. In addition, workshops and outreach programs are also offered to enhance a student's well being and academic performance. To assist students in taking advantage of the tremendous opportunities for personal and intellectual growth that college life offers, the Counseling Center enables students to develop effective tools for overcoming obstacles to their academic progress while examining personal and intellectual strengths, weaknesses, and learning skills. http://www.gmu.edu/departments/csdc/

Stress Management Lounge includes materials such as videotapes, audiotapes, and compact discs on stress management, which may be listened to in a soothing, relaxing atmosphere. Additionally, it creates awareness that many common attitudes may cause stress, and that these attitudes can be changed to alleviate stress. Visit http://www.gmu.edu/departments/csdc/stresslab.htm or go to Self-Development Center, SUB I, Room 355.

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. Students are welcome to use the facility or check out programs to be used for classroom or group presentations. http://www.gmu.edu/departments/csdc/selfeste.htm

Center for Service and Leadership offers Creativity & Leadership. Self-Esteem plays an important element, as people must believe in the ability to develop original ideas and they must continue to believe in themselves after repeated failures. The Center offers a list consisting of the four stages of the creative process, secrets to creative problem solving, group techniques to generate creativity, and contact information for additional help http://www.gmu.edu/student/csl/creativity.html.  <back to top>

Local Resources

Camp Optimism – Summer Residential Camp for Physically Challenged or Disabled Children. Located in Prince William County, the camp has programs for swimming, boating, softball, volleyball, soccer, crafts, games and nature trails. It also has a complete medical facility, a dining hall, and a craft hall along with an amphitheater and outside pavilion. Rules of common sense, good behavior and friendship toward others are all they ask. For further information regarding contributions, enrollment, volunteering, or other concerns visit http://novaplaza.com/campoptimism/.

National Resources

MedlinePlus houses a wealth of excellent health information from the world’s largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. Both health professionals and consumers access information that is authoritative and up to date. MedlinePlus has extensive information form the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 700 diseases and conditions, which is also available in Spanish. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus

National Association for Self-Esteem (NASE) – This national non-profit organization’s purpose is to promote and fully integrate self-esteem into the fabric of American society so that personal worth, responsibility and integrity become paramount and commonplace in families, schools, the government and the workplace. Check the Reference and Bibliography Center; or the Masters Coalition site (featuring the leading thinkers in the area of self-esteem and human potential); or Self-Esteem Links to access hundreds of web sites. Take a “Rate Your Self-Esteem,” find an inspirational quote for the day, or locate a book to learn more about handling life’s challenges and becoming a better person. http://www.self-esteem-nase.org

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the nation’s medical research agency – making important medical discoveries that improve health and save lives. NIH, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducing and supporting medical research. NIH research has an impact upon child and teen health, men’s health, minority health, seniors’ health, women’s health, and wellness and lifestyle issues. For more information on attitude and health visit http://www.nih.gov/

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) works to improve the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment and mental health services by providing funding to states to support substance abuse and mental health services. Individuals may access information on mental health at http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/. SAMHSA offers publications on self-help guides on topics such as building self-esteem http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/SMA-3715/introduction.asp

Other Resources

Counseling & Mental Health Center (CMHC) at The University of Texas & Austin helps students with their personal concerns so they can meet the daily challenges of student life. The Web site http://www.utexas.edu/student/cmhc/ has many links to topics such as Optimize Your Potential, Relaxation Tapes, Voices Against Violence, Body Image/Eating Problems and more. CMHC also has a separate site regarding Better Self-Esteem http://www.utexas.edu/student/cmhc/booklets/selfesteem/selfest.html. Self-Esteem is considered fundamental and this site has unlimited information regarding poor self-esteem vs. healthy self-esteem, consequences of a low self-esteem, and three better steps to a better self-esteem.

Current Living is dedicated to presenting articles, information and resources, health, fitness, self growth, self care, creativity, and spirituality to educate, motivate, and inspire individuals to make the most of living in the now. http://www.currentliving.com/

Institute for Health and Human Potential is a research and learning organization that uses Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to leverage performance and leadership. The web site offers training, coaching, and a questionnaire that measures optimism and resilience under adversity. http://www.ihhp.com

La Belle Foundation is a non-profit organization whose objective is to bring the teaching of self-esteem, self-development and personal and social responsibility to public school students without charge. The organization is also known as the Self-Esteem Learning Foundation (S.E.L.F.) which is based on the La Bell Professional training School’s experience in training students to overcome some of the more unfortunate aspects of life: feelings of ineptness, unattractiveness and insignificance. The Curriculum offers three broad categories (personality, performance, and presentation). Each heading has a lengthy list of potential questions (with links) to answer or a checklist of helpful suggestions. http://www.selfesteem.org/

My New Attitude.com has the best self-help, self-improvement, inspirational, motivational and life-and attitude-changing articles to be found on the Internet. The web site can help with goal setting, life planning, career changes, time management, or just plain inspiration. My New Attitude has tons of free content that can help set goals, get motivated, and take the actions necessary to change one’s attitude... and ones life. Just visit http://mna.coachjim.com/.  <back to top>