Online Counseling: Reviewing the Literature From a Counseling Psychology Framework

Online Counseling: Reviewing the Literature From a Counseling Psychology Framework
Problems:
Cultural static (Suler, 2001)
CyberPsychology & Behavior, 3, 151-160.
Crisis management (Childress & Asamen, 1998) Ethics&Behavior,8Telephone therapy allows individuals who might otherwise not be willing to seek treatment. Anonymity. (Lester, 1974)
"Communication may become devoid of personality" (Williams, 1971)

Online Counseling : Prioritizing Psychoeducation, Self-Help, and Mutual Help for Counseling Psychology Research and Practice


Crisis counseling + telephone + self help
Technological adjuncts to increase adherence to therapy: A review.

Telephone counseling + self help + compliance
Telephone enhancement of long-term engagement (TELE) in continuing care for substance abuse treatment: A NIDA clinical trials network (CTN) study.

Suler, J. (2000). Psychotherapy in cyberspace: A 5-dimensional model of online and computermediated

psychotherapy.


BINGO?
Use of short message service (SMS)-based interventions to enhance low intensity CBT. Book chapter, on ILL Request.

A comprehensive client management system for crisis intervention services.

This paper presents and evaluates a comprehensive client management system for suicide and crisis intervention services. The management system consists of five service designations: self-injury, crisis, active support, general support, and single contact. These designations determine the extent and type of activity engaged in, as well as the scope of follow-up and monitoring. As intended, self-injury clients received more contacts, longer periods of involvement, and more time in direct service. There was little difference in the length of each contact and the ability to ascertain outcome. While the management system established valuable service guidelines and priorities, it did not resolve approaches to some of the idiosyncratic problems presented to suicide and crisis intervention services.

 

 

The building blocks of treatment in cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a set of treatments that focus on altering thoughts, sensations, emotions and behaviors by addressing identified maintenance mechanisms such as distorted thinking or avoidance. The current article describes the history of CBT and provides a description of many of the basic techniques used in CBT. These include: psychoeducation, self-monitoring, cognitive restructuring, in vivo exposure, imaginal exposure, and homework assignments.

Childress, C. A., & Asamen, J. K. (1998). The emerging relationship of psychology and the

Internet: Proposed guidelines for conducting Internet intervention research.

Online Counseling

Bingo!
Online Counseling: Reviewing the Literature From a Counseling Psychology Framework
Mallen et al, 2005


More stuff:

Chang, T. (2005). Online counseling: Prioritizing psychoeducation, self-help, and mutual help for counseling psychology research and practice. The Counseling Psychologist, 33(6), 881-890. doi:10.1177/0011000005279962

Hampton, N. Z., & Houser, R. (2000). Applications of computer-mediated communications via the internet in rehabilitation counseling. Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling, 31(3), 3-9. Retrieved from http://www.csa.com/

Kalafat, J., Gould, M. S., Munfakh, J. L. H., & Kleinman, M. (2007). An evaluation of crisis hotline outcomes: Part 1: Non-suicidal crisis callers. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 37(3), 322-337. doi:10.1521/suli.2007.37.3.322

Kostin, Y. M. (2004). Virtual counseling: A validation study of the academic advising via internet facilities. ProQuest Information & Learning). Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences, 64(7-A) (Electronic; Print) Retrieved from http://www.csa.com/. (2004-99001-121; AAI3097407)

Koziey, P. W., & McLeod, G. L. (1987). Visual-kinesthetic dissociation in treatment of victims of rape. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 18(3), 276-282. doi:10.1037/0735-7028.18.3.276

Mallen, M. J., Vogel, D. L., Rochlen, A. B., & Day, S. X. (2005). Online counseling: Reviewing the literature from a counseling psychology framework. The Counseling Psychologist, 33(6), 819-871. doi:10.1177/0011000005278624

Malouff, J. M., & Schutte, N. S. (2007). Activities to enhance social, emotional, and problem-solving skills: Seventy-six activities that teach children, adolescents, and adults skills crucial to success in life. Springfield, IL, US: Charles C. Thomas Publisher. Retrieved from http://www.csa.com/

Miller, W. R., Hedrick, K. E., & Orlofsky, D. R. (1991). The helpful responses questionnaire: A procedure for measuring therapeutic empathy. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 47(3), 444-448. doi:10.1002/1097-4679(199105)47:3<444::AID-JCLP2270470320>3.0.CO;2-U

Murphy, L., MacFadden, R., & Mitchell, D. (2008). Cybercounseling online: The development of a university-based training program for e-mail counseling. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 26(2-4), 447-469. doi:10.1080/15228830802102081

Owen, J. E., Hanson, E. R., Preddy, D. A., & Bantum, E. O. (2011). Linguistically-tailored video feedback increases total and positive emotional expression in a structured writing task. Computers in Human Behavior, 27(2), 874-882. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2010.11.012

Patterson, J. B., & Groble, M. B. (2003). Ethical issues associated with computer and internet-based services. Rehabilitation Education, 17(2), 101-110. Retrieved from http://www.csa.com/

Pemberton, C. B. (2001). A comparison of reading comprehension in electronic vs. printed media and computer anxiety: Relation of intent to use cyber counseling. ProQuest Information & Learning). Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences, 62(5-A) (Electronic; Print) Retrieved from http://www.csa.com/. (2001-95021-098; AAI3015273)

Pollock, S. L. (2006). Internet counseling and its feasibility for marriage and family counseling. The Family Journal, 14(1), 65-70. doi:10.1177/1066480705282057

Sanchez-Page, D. (2005). The online-counseling debate: A view toward the underserved. The Counseling Psychologist, 33(6), 891-899. doi:10.1177/0011000005279964

(via CSA Illumina PsychINFO database)

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Am I depressed or just deep?
(Distinguishing between response to negative life events vs. depression as a disease; touches on issues brought up by Csikszentmihalyi on lackof depression in individuals experiencing brutal oppression, such as Holocaust survivors, later developing depression after conditions improve. Paula Bloom.)

Does marijuana enhance experimentally induced anxiety?
Pillard, McNair, and Fisher, 1974

Two experiments tested whether laboratory stressors induce greater or more variable anxiety in marijuana-intoxicated subjects. In experiment 1, marijuana and placebo subjects were shown a motion picture film depicting dental procedures. In experiment 2, they were subjected to the stress of giving a short videotaped speach. We found no significant difference between marijuana and placebo subjects in anxiety response to these two stressors, as measured by a mood adjective rating scale.

Site Specific Live Electronic Music: A Sound-Artist’s Perspective

Ten years of telerehabilitation: A literature overview of technologies and clinical applications

This paper aims at delivering a structured overview of telerehabilitation literature by analysing the entire set of articles under the search terms "telerehabilitation" or "tele-rehabilitation" to portray "state of the art" ten years after the publication of the first scientific article on the topic. A structured study has been conducted by considering all those articles containing the word "telerehabilitation" or "tele-rehabilitation". Medline, Embase, Cochrane, UK Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health databases have been interrogated for articles between 1998 and 2008. 146 scientific articles were found. 56 articles focus on patient treatment, 23 are reviews, 3 are to be considered as both patient treatment papers and reviews, 53 are either technical reports, system descriptions or analyses of new approaches; 8 are general discussion on telerehabilitation. The present paper draw the scenario of the first ten years of telerehabilitation, focussing on clinical applications and technologies. Basically, it confirms the lack of comprehensive studies providing evidence for supporting decision and policy-makers in adopting telerehabilitation technologies in the clinical practice. An overall lack of standardisation in the used terminology also results from the analysis of keywords, which is typical of quite recent fields of application.

What makes live music aesthetically intriguing or meaningful? How can live music be

essentially site-specific and in what ways a work can manifest itself in a particular space? In

turn, why would this be of any interest to an audience? To what extent is improvisation still

meaningful? Should a work remain live at any cost? What is communicated in a performance

and why would it be of any interest? Does a performance necessarily aim to some sort of

expression?

Such are the questions the author attempts to answer via his artistic output. This paper

describes the main goals of this practice, and identifies the key elements that make a work

substantially live, site-specific and (hopefully) aesthetically intriguing. It is further shown

how this practice originates from a profoundly-rooted exploratory attitude to form a unique

aesthetic ethos. It is of paramount concern for the author to address the technical challenges

that a live electronic music paradigm poses while remaining faithful to his aspirations.

Aesthetically speaking, the author describes his general strategy in terms of three interrelating

concepts: ‘Ekstasis’ (to bring someone out of their usual way of being), ‘Gelassenheit’ (the

state where sound is found unequivocal and mysterious – its phenomenological quintessence),

and ‘Psychagogia’ (to enact a shift in one’s state of being). Various techniques allow the

artistic output to be consistent with the aforementioned concepts, and selected examples are

described.

Google Profile of Mood State (GPOMS)

Twitter mood predicts the stock market
Bollen & Mao, 2011

Happiness Is Assortative in Online Social Networks

Bollen at al, 2011

An evaluation of crisis hotline outcomes. Part 1: Nonsuicidal crisis callers. Kalafat et al 2007, Notes & Bib

Kalafat, J., Gould, M. S., Munfakh, J . L. H., & Kleinman, M. (2007). An evaluation of  crisis hotline outcomes. Part 1: Nonsuicidal crisis callers. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, 37(3), 322-337

Main conceptual bases of crisis intervention:

• Crisis is an opportunity to use coping skills for better outcome
• Many problem behaviors are maladaptive coping attempts
• Anxiety due to crisis state affects cognition, problem-solving ability (need more sources for this)
• Individuals in crisis are more open to intervention. Relatively brief intervention can have a large impact during this time. 

People in crisis more open to intervention:
Caplan, G. (1964). Principles of preventive psychiatry. New York: Basic Books.
Rapoport, L. (1965). The state of crisis: Some theoretical considerations. In H. J. Parad (Ed.), Crisis intervention: Selected readings. (pp. 2 - 31) New York: Family Service Association of America.

"Collaborative intervention":
Baldwin, B.A. (1979). Crisis intervention: An overview of theory and practice. Counseling Psychologist, 8, 43-52
Brockopp, G. W. (1973). Crisis intervention: Theory and practice. In D. Lester and G. W. Brockopp (Eds.), Crisis intervention and counseling by telephone (pp. 89-109). Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.

Profile of Mood State (POMS)
McNair, D., Lorr, M., & Droppelman, L. F. (1992). POMS manual: Profile of Mood States. San Diego, CA: Educational and Industrial Testing Service.


Profile of Mood States: Modified (POMS-M)