Holding the Line

Synopsis: The telephone provides many people with their primary means of accessing information and seeking support. This video covers the key issues that anyone needs to bear in mind if their work involves them in offering such help - be they a counsellor, a helpline operator or simply someone using the phone to give advice. The video demonstrates: the benefits and drawbacks of using the telephone for both helper and caller; how to adapt existing counselling skills to telephone work; specific skills to use on the telephone - for example, how to set appropriate boundaries and how to deal with problem callers.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2003
Year of production: 2003
Subjects: Social welfare; Mental Health and Counselling; FE
Keywords: counselling; telephone skills training

Name: Concord Media
Email: sales@concordmedia.org.uk
Web: http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/ External site opens in new window
Phone: 01473 726 012
Address: Rosehill Centre
22 Hines Road
Ipswich
IP3 9BG
Notes: A long-established, not-for-profit organisation with a large collection DVDs, specialising in the sectors of general and mental health, child care, race relations, war and peace, addictions, the third world, ecology, civil rights, personal relationships, educational issues, and social work training. Concord also handles titles made for the Graves Medical Audio-visual Library. Sale on DVD. Formerly known as Concord Video and Film Council. In 2014 Concord began to offer selected films as Video on Demand, via Vimeo.

Name: University of Wales, Newport
Email: carolyn.jenkins@newport.ac.uk
Web: http://shop.newport.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=15&Itemid=1 External site opens in new window
Phone: 01633 432148
Address: School of Social Studies
Allt-yr-yn Campus
PO Box 180
Newport
NP20 5XR
Wales
Notes: A series of DVDs produced by members of the counselling team at the School of Health and Social Science. The videos are intended to give training in counselling techniques, both in person and on the telephone, to trainee counsellors and those who may need to use some counselling in the course of their job. Some of the programmes are marketed "in house", others are more widely available through Concord Media.

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