Ethical issues in providing online psychotherapeutic interventions
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The Internet offers psychotherapists a new communication medium through which they can deliver psychotherapeutic interventions that are appropriate to the medium. Yet online psychotherapy also offers new ethical challenges for therapists interested in providing online psychotherapeutic services. The differences between interactive text-based communication and in-person verbal communication create new ethical challenges not previously encountered in face-to-face therapy. This article will examine the Internet's potential for providing online psychotherapeutic interventions and will review the ethical issues involved with providing interactive text-based psychotherapy.
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Childress (2000) concluded that theoretical models to deliver a text-based format intervention need to be developed and patients must be informed that risks related to this relatively new method of treatment are unknown.
“Already in 2000, Childress wrote an article analyzing the ethical aspect of online interventions and concluded, among other things, that theoretical models to deliver a text based format intervention need to be developed and patients must be informed that risks related to this relatively new method of treatment is unknown [28] .”
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- Authors
- Childress, C. A.
- Affiliations
- Pepperdine University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Childress, Craig A
- Venue
- Journal of Medical Internet Research
- Publisher
- JMIR Publications Inc.
- Published
- 2000-03-31
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- e5
- ISSN
- 1438-8871 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC1761841
- OpenAlex
- W2074026890
- Cited by
- 116
- References
- 16
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- FWCI
- 4.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Journal of Medical Internet Research (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- TSpace (University of Toronto) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- online therapy, psychotherapy ethics, text-based communication, patient-therapist communication
- MeSH terms
- Ethics, Medical, Humans, Physician-Patient Relations, Psychiatry, Psychotherapeutic Processes, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Internet
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