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.