This edition’s column is written with grateful thanks to Jan Stiff. Jan was a student on the Diploma in Online Therapeutic Supervision recently and used a teaching and learning session to introduce an online supervision model she had adapted from a GP consultation model for use with trainees. Jan’s original career was in nursing and… [Read More]
The Benefits of Blogging for Better Student Writing: a Review
As researchers Nicole B. Ellison and Yuehua Wu (2008) state, “Many educators are excited by the potential for new Internet technologies, such as blogs . . . to reinvigorate student engagement and learning” (p. 100). In this technologically driven era, how do new tools like online blogs actually aid students and teachers in the classroom… [Read More]
Guilt-Free Pleasures
By the time that most people start therapy they have been struggling for some time with their concerns. Many have Googled their symptoms, read self-help books, or tried medications. Most are exhausted from working so hard on getting unstuck on their own. In the first session, I always ask my clients what they like to… [Read More]
Student Spotlight
I’d been counselling compulsive gamblers for the Gordon Moody Association for two years when I was approached about delivering support and therapy to problem gamblers online. The decision to provide online support had been taken a few years earlier on the basis that GMA had 40 years experience in the field, which not many organisations… [Read More]
Skype & HIPAA: The Vexing Question
Skype and similar web-based platforms are increasingly becoming a way for many for physicians and other health care practitioners to communicate and interact with patients at a distance. Many telehealth practitioners in particular use web-based platforms for the delivery of care and communications with patients—especially in certain telehealth subspecialties such as telepsychiatry. The reasons are… [Read More]
“Craigslist Joe”: Technology, Community and Adventure
In anticipation of our trip home to Florida and our subsequent day in the Gulf of Mexico, I decided that my daughter and I truly needed to snorkel. The water is perfectly clear and while there are no coral reefs like those in Mexico, it’s still a stunning sight to see. Thing is, a snorkel,… [Read More]
Unlocking the Client’s Internal Dialogue with Virtual Reality
Introduction “The overwhelming finding was that technology and cyber communication has not only ‘‘crept’’ into traditional social work practice but, indeed, signifies a turning point” (Mishna et al, 2012). Whether we like it or not, technology touches almost every aspect of our lives and has become an essential relational medium for social and professional use…. [Read More]
Online Therapy and Patient Engagement
Before DeeAnna Nagel began practicing online therapy, and before she co-founded the Online Therapy Institute, she was a patient, and an e-patient. In early 2000, she was nearly incapacitated with a mysterious lung disease. Her medical journey took her from specialist to specialist, each baffled about her symptoms, while she got sicker and sicker. She… [Read More]
