General counselling resources

• Ahead 4 health - uses scenarios to look at problems faced by young people and students, summary of symptoms, help with common problems, 2 online self-help workbooks on problem solving and being assertive.
  
  
• Age Concern England - large number of useful factsheets, news, services and research.
  
  
• Antidote: Campaign for Emotional Literacy - includes case studies, stories, information on publications and newsletter.
  
  
• Counselling in Primary Care Trust - news, articles, links for counsellors working in primary care.
  
  
• Critical Psychiatry website - articles, links to websites critical of psychiatry and links to survivor sites, articles critical of psychiatry, links to email forums.
  
  
• Depression Alliance - helpful information on depression, including useful information on treatment options.
  
  
• A Guide to Psychotherapy on the World Wide Web, incorporating Online Dictionary of Mental Health - from Sheffield University, site includes search engine, subject index, organisations, professional forums.
  
  
• HARP (Health for Asylum Seekers and Refugees Portal) - resources for health professionals and volunteers, including sections on vital resources, practical resources, social and cultural information and information for children, women and men, also multilingual information on taking medicine.
  
  
• The Health House - visually interesting, includes sections on mental health, e.g. adivice for Asian women, employment rights, helping friends and relatives, self-help and support.
  
  
• HEBSWEB - Health Education Board for Scotland - large number of public and professional resources from Scottish national health promotion organisation, including mental health, information, articles, leaflets, support groups.
  
  
• Leaflets for self help - wide range on online leaflets covering, common difficulties and work-related problems from Cambridge University Counselling Service, how to series and understanding series from MIND.
  
  
• Mental Health in Education - online guide to emotional and behavioural disorders in children and young people and routes to seeking help, including signs and symptoms, resources and access to counselling, advice on counselling services, resources and contacts. Teaching resources available online from BACP.
  
  
• Mental Health Information - range of information on mental health issues from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, also online leaflets, factsheets and checklists.
  
  
• Mental Health Foundation - covering mental health and learning disabled issues, includes how to get help, section on attitudes and discrimination, legislation in the UK, advice on how to complain about the media portrayal of mental health issues.
  
  
• Mental Magazine - campaigning for good health and social care, including news, articles, discussion forum.
  
  
• Multilingual Appointment Card - over 30 languages.
  
  
• National electronic library for Mental Health - resources for patients, service users and others but mainly for health professionals.
  
  
• PsychNet - UK - Mental Health, Psychiatry and Psychology online web directory. PsychNet-UK contains over 7500 mental health and psychology resource links, most of the resources online, including articles, humour, games, polls, recommended books, an independent site.
  
  
• Rowan Tree - large "new age", holistic and alternative therapy UK site - holistic therapy index, shopping, events.
  
  
• Student Counselling Service - provides advice and information for students and staff (making a referral, sudden death, mental health), also links to leaflets from the Royal College of Psychiatrists and University of Chicago, from the University of Lincoln (UK).
  
  
• TALKadoption - Helpline - Tuesday - Thursday Tel: 0808 808 1234, website includes youth, adoption, professional and other links.
  
  
• Telephone Helplines Association - site includes 1998 directory with 24 subject areas, including children, employment, health, housing, immigration, law, prison etc. also newsletter, forums.
  
  
• therapyindex.com - FAQs explaining about counselling, psychotherapy, psychiatry and basic information about availability, selection of therapists online but not comprehensive, check with national organisations also.

International general sites

• 2psych. - European website providing online counselling for young adults and general counselling and psychotherapy resources.
  
  
• Association for Psychological Type (APT) MBTI - information on psychological types and personality development and associated links.
  
  
• Counseling Center - University at Buffalo - wide range of self-help resources for students and others, including support through study skills for the stresses of study.
  
  
• CounselorLink - mainly relates to some styles of counselling in the US.
  
  
• Cyber Psych - links to psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, anxiety resources, cyberpsych community resources, sites and research.
  
  
• Doug's WWW Resources for Counsellors - list of major sites and resources.
  
  
• Eating Disorders - information, self-help, resources.
  
  
• GriefNet - large number of resources related to death, dying, bereavement, and major emotional and physical losses, also wide range of discussion and support groups through mailing lists.
  
  
• Internet Mental Health - uses US and European descriptions of disorders, online discussion groups, online articles, books, news, newsletters, magazine, research information, international links.
  
  
• Metanoia - links to US therapist organisations and therapists on-line.
  
  
• Mind Tools - major resources including practical techniques for planning, thinking, stress, psychology and much more (UK and International site).
  
  
• Panic/Anxiety Disorders - links from the Mining Company.
  
  
• Psych Central: Dr John Grohol's Mental Health Page - Internet resources, symptoms, FAQs (frequently asked questions).
  
  
• School Psychology Resources On-line - US site, large selection of information topics and links organised in helpful categories.
  
  
• The Student Counseling Virtual Pamphlet Collection - wide range of student support topics from a variety of US colleges and universities.
  
  
• Student Counselling Centers on the Internet - US college and university sites.
  
  
• Therapeutic Recreation Directory - ideas, resources and links, including games and puzzles, warm up activities, social activities, fitness and wellness, experiential activities, humour, team-building and more.