Counsellor Training Resources

Internal Publications

• Contractual arrangements for trainee counsellors within staff counselling at the University of Sheffield.
• Quality Assurance Statement of staff counselling.
• Coping with Sudden Bereavement.
• Making a Referral to staff counselling.

External Publications

• Lago, C.O. (1990) Working with Overseas Students: A Staff Development Training Manual.

This training manual, almost 500 pages in length and featuring over 100 training exercises was designed for use with all categories of staff that will have contact with international students or who may travel overseas themselves. There are specific sections on designing training programmes, exercises to facilitate exploration of the culture, cross cultural communication, language awareness and linguistic skills, implications for teaching and learning, faring well and welfare, and an extensive bibliography and videography.

This manual is presently being updated by Alison Barty and will be available through the United Kingdom Council for Overseas Student Affairs.

Videos

• They Look at Your Face and See a Flag, Sheffield University Television Service. Price: £ 55 (Higher/Further Ed); £75 (Commercial organisations), excludes VAT but includes carriage.

A training video, for use with international students in orientation discussions and with members of staff in further and higher education, advisers, tutors, counsellors and recruiters.

• Carl Rogers: The Legacy and the Challenge (1990), Sheffield University Staff Counselling. Price £25. Currently unavailable.

This is a video of a lecture by Professor Brian Thorne, the Director of Counselling at the University of East Anglia and was recorded at a one day seminar held at the University of Sheffield to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the founding of client-centred therapy.

• The Dance of Psychotherapy (1994), University of Sheffield Staff Counselling. Price: £30. Currently unavailable.

This is a video of the 8th Annual Counselling Lecture given by David Mearns, Professor in Counselling Studies at Strathclyde University. The lecture explores the intriguing therapeutic processes involved in clients changing their self concept during person-centred therapy where battles may rage between parts of the client's self and where the therapist must engage in a therapeutic relationship with each of those parts.

• Issues of Race and Culture in Counselling Settings (1989), produced by C.Lago and J. Thompson, in association with Audio Visual Services, University of Leicester, Medical Sciences Building, Leicester LE1 9HN. Purchase Price: £70.50; Hire Charge £19.97. Further information from the above address.

This interactive training video programme features six short interviews using counselling skills and featuring cross cultural and cross racial issues and dialogues. A training manual, of the same title, is also available to this video and can be obtained directly from the University of Sheffield Staff Counselling at a price of £10.

• Counselling a New Client, directed by C. Lago and produced by Audio Visual Services, University of Leicester, PO Box 138, University Road, Leicester LE1 9HN. Purchase Price: £49.95; Hire Charge £19.97. Further information from the above address.

This videotape features a client, Michael, in his first interview with Professor Brian Thorne of the University of East Anglia and the Norwich Centre, in the role of counsellor. In this interview Brian demonstrates the core conditions of person-centred therapy. The structure of the video is as follows: (a) an introduction by Brian Thorne to the central tenets of person-centred therapy, (b) the interview with Michael, (c) the summing up of the interview by Brian Thorne.