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New Technological Settings of Communication to Improve the Traditional Techniques in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: Internet and new communication technologies have achieved a rapid development in the last years producing a significative impact on clinical psychology and psychotherapy.Psychotherapists seem to rely with more and more interest on the new technological tools such as telemedicine, audio and video chats, e-mail, SMS, MMS and the Instant Messaging Tools (IMs).All these technologies outline a stimulating as well as complex scenario: in order to effectively exploit their potential, it is important to study which is the possible role played by the Internet-based tools inside a psychotherapeutic or psychological treatment.The main goal of this article is to provide a framework for the integration of new technological tools and settings in mental health care.Different theoretical positions about the possible role played by Internet based therapy (e-therapy) are reported showing the possible changes that psychotherapy will necessarily cope with.

Source: The Open Communication Journal

DOI: 10.2174/1874916x00802010086

Author: Gianluca Castelnuovo

Institutions: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano

Language: English

Topic: Digital Mental Health Interventions

Subfield: Applied Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Compagnia di San Paolo