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Book SynopsisThis guide shares best practice for delivering mental health support and treatment digitally.
Part One considers aspects relevant to all digital mental health interventions, such as therapeutic alliance, risk, safeguarding, working with complexity, and what people are looking for from digital support.
Part Two focuses on specific therapies and models, including CBT, ACT, DBT, CFT, CAT and EMDR, and how they can be adapted for digital delivery. Whatever technology is available to you, this book will support you in taking your practice onto whichever digital platforms both you, and your clients feel comfortable with.
With top tips from a wide range of practitioners, this book opens a conversation about the benefits, challenges and best practice for delivering mental health therapies using digital platforms.
Trade ReviewThis text will be a useful reference for clinicians harnessing the benefits of the range of online psychological approaches, and learning the lessons from others in order to overcome the challenges. -- From the foreword by John Powell, Professor of Digital Health Care, University of Oxford
...skillfully combines robust scholarship with carefully selected clinical vignettes and 'practical examples', offering concrete suggestions on how to use technology to provide clients with a beneficial experience.
It has the potential to become a landmark text and to inform the understanding of the benefits of 'digital therapy', for current and future generations of clinicians.
-- Dr Daniela Di Basilio * British Psychological Society’s Clinical Psychology Forum *
Table of ContentsForeword
1. INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: CROSS-THERAPY FACTORS
2. THE ONLINE THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE: THE NEED FOR DIGITAL COMPETENCE AND ONLINE RELATIONAL SKILL
3. BEING HUMAN AMONGST THE 0's AND 1's: SELF-CARE AND SUPERVISION
4. DIGITAL SAFEGUARDING & RISK: COME ON IN, YOU'RE WELCOME & SAFE
5. TO KNOW OR NOT TO KNOW - MANAGING ANONYMITY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS
6. WHAT DO PEOPLE LOOK FOR FROM DIGITAL SUPPORT?
7. USING DIGITAL MEDIUMS TO PROVIDE TRAUMA-INFORMED SUPPORT TO PEOPLE WITH COMPLEX PRESENTATIONS
8. MENTAL HEALTH APPS: ROLES, RISKS & OPPORTUNITIES
PART TWO: SPECIFIC THERAPIES AND ADAPTATIONS
9. DIGITAL ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY
10.DIGITAL DELIVERY OF COGNITIVE ANALYTIC THERAPY
11.DELIVERING DIGITAL COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY
12.COMPUTERISED COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE
13.DELIVERING COMPASSION FOCUSED THERAPY VIA DIGITAL PLATFORMS
14.SCIENTIFIC ARTISTRY IN THE WORLD OF DIGITALLY-DELIVERED COUNSELLING
15.USING TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE THE REACH AND EFFICIENCY OF DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY
16.DIGITAL EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITISATION AND REPROCESSING
17.DELIVERING MINDFULNESS GROUPS BY VIDEO CONFERENCING
18.DELIVERING FAMILY THERAPY AND SYSTEMIC INTERVENTIONS USING DIGITAL PLATFORMS
19.USING VIRTUAL REALITY TO TREAT ANXIETY
20.'Top Tips' for Delivering Mental Health Therapies Using Digital Platforms
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