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Eichenberg, Christiane (2011). Psychotherapy and the Internet. Psychotherapeut, 56 (6). S. 468 - 475. NEW YORK: SPRINGER. ISSN 1432-2080

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Abstract

The Internet plays an important role in healthcare. Approximately two thirds of Internet users search the medium for, e.g. personal questions of health, including aspects of mental health. In countless discussion forums or blogs mentally stressed people discuss their problems and search for contact to other affected individuals but also to professional helpers. In this article an attempt is made to systematize the interface between Internet and psychotherapy in the narrower and broader sense. In particular five topics and problem areas will be dealt with: (1) as information medium Internet delivers an immense number of resources on mental disorders, which raises the problem of quality assurance. (2) As a communication medium it can provide support for therapeutic interventions. Psychological online counseling has now been proven to be effective. (3) Internet alters the traditional therapeutic relationship in one way or another. In particular e-mail communications supplement a face-to-face treatment. (4) Use of the Internet also brings along clinically relevant problems and because of this patients visit psychotherapeutic practices increasingly more often. (5) Internet can be fruitful for psychotherapy research.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Eichenberg, Christiane UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-485989
DOI:	10.1007/s00278-011-0865-9
Journal or Publication Title:	Psychotherapeut
Volume:	56
Number:	6
Page Range:	S. 468 - 475
Date:	2011
Publisher:	SPRINGER
Place of Publication:	NEW YORK
ISSN:	1432-2080
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language WORKING ALLIANCE; SUPPORT GROUPS; ONLINE; INFORMATION; QUALITY; DISORDER; HEALTH Multiple languages Psychology, Clinical; Psychology, Psychoanalysis Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/48598