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What is Online Therapy?
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...
Crisis Management
Once a professional relationship has been established, the licensed clinical psychologist or mental-health professional has a responsibility to the welfare of the client. Not having immediate in-person availability presents real difficulties for a...
Drawbacks of Text Communication
Therapy has often been called the "talking cure," since the exchange of words between the client and therapist can appear to be the most obvious form of communication that is going on. In reality, therapy can offer a much richer experience than the...
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 and so should automatically be precluded from online therapy. While no conclusive research has been...
Legal, Jurisdictional and Ethical Issues
There are considerable legal, jurisdictional and ethical issues in providing therapy via the Internet. For instance, how to abide by state laws governing mental-health service practices and insurance. Therapists must be licensed in every state in...
Restrictions of Present-Day Technology
Although the Internet is certainly a fast-evolving communication technology, its present-day state has certain unavoidable restrictions that can significantly interfere with trying to conduct therapy online. Some of these current restrictions...