Technological adjuncts to enhance current psychotherapy practices: a review
Abstract
Although there are several of reviews of technology in psychology, none to date has focused on technological adjuncts for improving traditional face to face therapy. However, examination of response, adherence, and dropout rates suggests there is considerable scope for improving traditional face to face services. The purpose of this paper was to examine technological adjuncts used to enhance psychotherapy practice. This review focused only on those technologies designed to supplement or enhance traditional therapy methods. Adjuncts designed to reduce direct therapist contact or change the medium of communication were not included. Adjuncts reviewed were mobile phones, personal digital assistants, biofeedback and virtual reality. Limitations in the current literature and directions for future research were identified and discussed. This review provides a comprehensive examination of the way in which adjunctive technologies may be incorporated into face to face therapy.
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Biofeedback provides a valuable tool in psychotherapy.
“While biofeedback is an established method to strengthen weakened physiological processes (e.g., hand strength weakness; Garcia- Hernandez et al., 2018), it can also be used to affect psychological states, such as emotions (e.g., anxiety; Vitasari et al., 2011) or attention (Fehmi and Shor, 2013) and thus provides a valuable tool in psychotherapy (Clough and Casey, 2011;Lehrer, 2018).”
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- Authors
- Clough, B. A., & Casey, L. M.
- Affiliations
- Griffith University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Clough, Bonnie A.
- ORCID
- Clough, Bonnie A.
- Venue
- Clinical Psychology Review
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-04
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 279-292
- ISSN
- 0272-7358 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1984450478
- Cited by
- 103
- References
- 114
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- FWCI
- 1.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Clinical Psychology Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Keywords
- psychotherapy practice, face-to-face therapy, mobile devices, personal digital assistants, biofeedback, virtual reality, medication adherence, treatment discontinuation, treatment response
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Psychotherapy, Technology, User-Computer Interface, Telemedicine, Computers, Handheld, Cell Phone
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