The following articles are related to ‘In Practice’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life.
Researchers at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in the United States are seeking participants for a nationwide investigation into pharmaceutical treatments for Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Participants receive medication and related medical care free of charge.
The first part of this article explored the trickiness of quantifying how much online therapy really goes on. It turns out that when it comes to online therapy, figures like years of experience or numbers of clients worked with are — without significant further information — meaningless at best and deeply misleading at worst. This second part offers a suggestion for how online therapists can report their experience more openly, honestly and transparently.
Some of the ‘old timers’ of online therapy will tell you how many years they’ve been at it, while others will tell you how many ‘clients’ they’ve had. But ask a few questions about how much actual online therapy these practitioners have done during all those years or with all those clients, and many online therapists don’t seem to want to talk about it.
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Under the guise of exploring trust within the profession, the BBC’s influential Radio 4 programme Today has highlighted the case for statutory regulation of psychotherapy practice, drawing an analogy with the regulation of medical professions such as radiology.
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