An investigation of session impact and alliance in internet based psychotherapy: Preliminary results

Autor: John M. Grohol, D’Arcy J. Reynolds, William B. Stiles
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 6:164-168
ISSN: 1746-1405
1473-3145
DOI: 10.1080/14733140600853617
Popis: Although psychotherapy has been and continues to be a face-to-face activity primarily, a growing minority of therapists are conducting text-based (i.e. e-mail) psychotherapy over the Internet. This study compared the session impact (measured by the Session Evaluation Questionnaire, SEQ; Stiles, Gordon, & Lani, 2002) and the client-therapist alliance (measured by the Agnew Relationship Measure, ARM; Agnew-Davies, Stiles, Hardy, Barkham, & Shapiro, 1998) of the exchanges between clients and therapists who are engaged in e-mail therapy with previously published results on face-to-face therapy. According to preliminary results, the online clients provided similar session impact and therapeutic alliance ratings compared to face-to-face clients. Although online therapists followed this general trend, they evaluated the depth, smoothness, and positivity aspects of session impact and confidence aspect of therapeutic alliance more highly than face-to-face therapists.
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