The fast-advancing technology of the Internet offers unprecedented opportunities to provide information and services to individuals in ways that were never even dreamed of until quite recently. One of the new services offered by some web sites is online therapy.
The use of the Internet to attempt to provide quality mental-health services is prompting many important ethical, legal, technological, and fundamental competency concerns and, at this time, remains controversial. The links below discuss some of these current areas of concern, and, when looked at as a whole, will offer you an overview of the present state of online therapy.
What is Online Therapy?
Learn about the current definition of online therapy, as well as the present-day pros and cons of attempting to provide quality therapeutic interventions via the Internet...
Crisis Management
Not having immediate in-person availability presents real difficulties when a therapist is trying to effectively respond to an online client in crisis...
Drawbacks of Text Communication
Many important communication elements that can be essential to effective therapy cannot be adequately represented in online text communication...
Avoiding Essential Help
Even advocates for online counseling agree that many mental-health problems have symptoms that cannot be properly treated without in-person services...
Legal, Jurisdictional and Ethical Issues
Providing therapy via the Internet raises a growing number of legal, jurisdictional and ethical concerns...
Restrictions of Present-Day Technology
The current technological state of the Internet presents unavoidable restrictions that can interfere with trying to conduct therapy online...
4therapy’s Position on Online Therapy
Find out what 4therapy's current position is on online therapy, as well as how we provide a trustworthy and reliable way to confidentially identify and select a therapist in your area who is ideally suited to your needs...
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