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Need of Online Psychotherapy

by Andrea Pop expat counseling and coaching

Online psychiatry is nothing but clinical assessment followed by psychiatric treatment through online mode. This method was introduced decade ago. However, in very little time it has become the most successful example of the general area of online medicine.

Online psychiatry mainly treats their patients at their supervised websites and makes use various conferencing techniques. Nowadays a number of companies are offering services and technologies to facilitate online psychotherapy. The patient served by online psychotherapy usually suffers from significant mental issues caused due to various factors. Hence, the treatment starts only after acomplete diagnosis of the problem. The treatment method is mainly pharmacologic.

Recently, various mental health articles and blogs have boasted growth of the online psychotherapy that is getting conducted by a private practitioner. As it falls under the rubric of online psychiatry, it varies in significant respects from the traditional method of the technology.

In online psychotherapy, the patient usually stays at their home not is very much supervised setting. The most popular technologies like Facetime and Skype are very often employed, potentially operatingafoul of the HIPAA privacy terms and regulations. And possibly most crucially, the patients are higherworking, with much more delicate problems that require nuanced fitness and discussion interventions.

The main idea of conducting any psychotherapy through online mode is not very new. Sigmund Freud more often communicated with his patients in methods he thought would be clinically helpful. Telephonic therapy were pioneered in 1960 with the advent of the suicide hotlines and then gradually expanded to avarious area of counseling related to mental health.

Psychotherapy through telephonic mode remains very popular, often get served as the temporary substitute for the in-person counseling sessions, for crisis involvement between the regular sessions and for maintaining therapeutic relationship when any one party in not available for personal counseling.


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About Andrea Pop Junior   expat counseling and coaching

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