E-therapy: caveats from experiences with telephone therapy.
Experiences with telephone counseling are used to illustrate potential problems for e-therapy: therapy becoming conversational, problems of transference and countertransference, and the effects of client's control and immediacy of contact.
Lester
David
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Psychology Program, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ 08240-0195, USA. lesterd@stockton.edu
D003219:Confidentiality; D003379:Countertransference; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D013689:Telephone; D014167:Transference, Psychology