Secured Internet-mediated Psychotherapy With Psychiatry Patients

Psychiatric Disorders

eTherapy supplementary

This is the second phase (Phase B) of the main project Bank for Thoughts, which has the following aims: 1. Improvement of software for secured (encrypted and access-controlled) asynchronous text-based communication within health services. (Adjustments for use in psychiatry.) 2. Open clinical trials with Internet-mediated psychotherapy or counselling in out-patient child and adolescent psychiatry. 3. Development of indications and precautions for text-based Internet-mediated psychotherapy.

This phase (Phase B) concentrates on qualitative evaluation of open clinical single case trials using asynchronous Internet-mediated text-dialogue for psychotherapeutic purposes. Single patients in differing treatment phases, conditions, age and sex categories are interviewed after using Internet-contact as a supplementary tool in psychotherapy. Their therapists are interviewed as well. The purpose is systematically gathering single-case experiences with the tool, to build a hypothesis for research and preliminary guidelines for experimental clinical use of Internet-mediated psychotherapy.

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