There are new online apps for getting therapy that could make it much easier than having to go to an office to see a therapist.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-t...-mental-health





There are new online apps for getting therapy that could make it much easier than having to go to an office to see a therapist.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-t...-mental-health




I think there's a real promise in online therapy, but unfortunately it doesn't pay very well. On the one hand, it makes it easier for early-career therapists to establish themselves and have work if they can't find it in person, but it pays pretty poorly and isn't covered by most insurance companies (yet), so many will still opt for in-person offices, especially established therpists.
I think that for anxiety or depression, it can be a setback, but also serve as a way to get someone to go to therapy who otherwise wouldn't because they won't leave the house. For such people, I'd say it's important to work on a transition to in-person therapy.
As far as bots go...I am so utterly against that. The article mentioned that the studies focused a lot on the bots getting people to feel open, and talk, etc....But what about the response from the therapist? You can't algorithm that. Each person and problem is unique and the therapist must be human in order to empathize, but more importantly, in order to give accurate and specific instructions, advice, and insights.
My husband is a psychologist and we sure have fantasized about traveling the world, supporting ourselves by both doing Skype shows of very different nature!
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I personally would rather Skype a therapist than have to drive all the way out and back only to do the exact same thing I'm doing on a video chat.
Like mentioned above, there are some kinks. There are also legal issues that need to be worked out with online therapy as the laws have yet to catch up to the technology. (Ex. Privacy online, hackers, etc). Plus it's riskier for the therapist - I don't believe it's covered by their malpractice insurance - so the client is only getting basic therapy nothing intensive.
Overall I like the concept.
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This would be ideal for people who are in crisis and no therapist or psychiatrist is available.





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Also, when you begin seeing a new therapist in person, there's something of a sense of obligation, like you have to go to several sessions before deciding it's not a good fit.
I got railroaded somehow into seeing a therapist in the same building where my psychiatrist worked. For some reason, I couldn't meet her until after I had actually made the appointment. I just wanted two minutes to introduce myself and get some sense of what she was like, but no.
I walked into the appointment and almost immediately thought "This is not going to work." My intuition turned out to be correct, and then some. But still I kept thinking "Maybe the next session will be better."
With something like Skype, it would have been more like "No, thank you." Click.
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