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Mental health delivery is rapidly changing in the face of new technologies. Numerous forms of "distance therapy" or "telepsychiatry" are now available and the landscape of mental health delivery is changing all the time. In this text, a provider of online mental health information - Dr Robert Hsiung - has gathered together a group of contributors to discuss clinical, ethical and legal issues in e-therapy as well as provide examples of presently active programs. Chapters include: the Internet "expert", Ronald Pies; an e-patient's story, Martha Ainsworth; chat room therapy, Gary S. Stofle; using e-mail to support outpatient treatment, Joel Yager; Community telepsychiatry, Sara F. Gibson; an online self-help group hosted by a mental health professional, Robert C. Hsiung; principles of professional ethics, Robert C. Hsiung; and legal ethics in online mental health, Nicolas P. Terry.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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7 Jun 2003
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This book covers more than just e-therapy, but every chapter is full of valuable information. Generally, the term e-therapy refers to a helping relationship between a psychotherapist and patient that takes place entirely on the Internet (they never meet face to face). Two chapters in this book - the ones by Stofle and Ainsworth - cover e-therapy in depth. Stofle discusses practical e-therapy techniques for professionals. Ainsworth outlines the consumer's view, both relating her own touching and engaging personal experience, and giving advice to professionals and consumers on how to do e-therapy safely and responsibly. Contrary to what one reviewer reported below, there is copious information in this chapter to help e-patients learn how to make sure they get adequate care and how not to get ripped off.
Other chapters are more geared toward hospital and clinic-based telepsychiatry, where distance technology is used to supplement, rather than replace, traditional in-person psychiatric care. The chapter on legal issues rehearses the current legal landscape (which most industry insiders agree is obsolete) but does not offer insight about the widespread movement to update telemedicine law.
If you are a therapist interested in doing e-therapy, you may have to add other books to your library, but I would buy this book for Stofle's and Ainsworth's essays alone. They are worth reading.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Choice for reading
21 May 2003
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This book is well written and I highly recommend it. It gives excellent examples of how to intergrate e-therapy into a practice that involves mental health. It DOES discuss the legal ramifications as well as ethical issues in e-therapy. For those afraid that technology will replace the human, please don't read. But for the rest of us, who are looking to make our jobs more efficient this is a great resource.
19 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Edited books of this nature
28 Jun 2003
Format:Paperback
The problem with an edited book of this nature is that the quality widely varies. Some chapters of this book come highly recommended, while others shouldn't have even been included. It's too bad, too, as some of this information is valuable for both therapists and potential online clients. Some of it is readily available, however, online already.
The editor's own chapters leave a lot to be desired, with a myopic and narcissistic view of the online world and his contributions to it. While using one's own experiences to help illustrate a point can certainly be helpful, I found all too often the editor going overboard in his chapters. He spent a lot of time describing his experiences not so much with e-therapy, but with things only marginally associated with therapy. I found such chapters to be book fillers, as though there wasn't enough to actually write about this topic.
Overall, a disappointing book. Given some of the professionals involved in it, I would've expected a more balanced review of the challenges facing not only professionals, but consumers as well. Instead, I felt like I got a warmed-over, half-baked idea for a book filled with inaccuracies and irrelevant content.
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