New Innovations Four Tips for Maintaining a Secure Practice By Mark Goldenson Introduction Although encryption is not a new innovation, it is still a new concept for many people in the helping professions. When mental health providers start an online practice, a common initial concern is security. The ease of sending electronic data worldwide also… [Read More]
Marketing Your Practice Online: The Start-Up Kit
Marketing Toolbox By Susan Giurleo Marketing your Practice Online: The Start-Up Kit You know that if you have an online component of your therapeutic practice online, you will need to market your services online, too. And while the entry costs to marketing on the internet are low and there are many services out there offering… [Read More]
Opening Therapeutic Doors to the iGeneration
By Marina London According to an article in the New York Times (Stone 2010), researchers are beginning to draw a distinction between the Net Generation, born in the 1980s, and the iGeneration, born in the ’90s and this decade. Now in their 20s, those in the Net Generation, spend two hours a day talking on… [Read More]
Interested in Avatar Therapy? This Might Help!
Consider Learning about the Use of Avatars in mental health interventions, coaching and other helping disciplines! Avatar Identities: Specialist Certificate in Cyberculture We have been talking about Avatar Therapy for awhile and more and more colleagues are emailing asking for information. We have a compiled a list of references, links, resources- not in any particular… [Read More]
How to Handle Crisis Online
If you are a mental health practitioner and you offer online therapy, please be sure to follow standard informed consent protocol. Always obtain demographic information from your client including name, address and contact information. If your client resides in a different geographic region than you, look up community emergency and safety resources in your client’s… [Read More]
Healing the Inner Child Through Virtual Reality and Avatar Therapy
Alice in VirtualLand DeeAnna Nagel and Kate Anthony Alice got off at the subway station and decided to stop at the corner coffee shop instead of heading straight home. She has been traveling this route for over 20 years and she admits now to anyone who will listen, that the daily routine of her real… [Read More]
The Writing Cure: Therapeutic Effectiveness via the Internet
The Writing Cure: Therapeutic Effectiveness via the Internet Cathryn Heyman and Cedric Speyer It is estimated that less than half of what we say is communicated through words, while the rest is spoken through nonverbal signals including tone, pace, inflection, body posture, facial expression, and eye contact. Since we often struggle to put our feelings into words, the majority… [Read More]
TILT Magazine: Issue 3
HOT TOPICS: Navigating Conflicts by Email, An Ethical Framework for the Use of Social Media by Mental Health Professionals, Conferencing in Second Life~ A Newbie’s POV!, Global Mental Health and the New Technologies: Time for a Wedding!, News from the CyberStreet, What Would YOU Do?!, Wounded Genius, Reel Culture, Legal Briefs, CyberSupervision
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