Increasingly, people spend time online, communicating via e-mail, websites, instant messages, and various social media platforms that incorporate text, video, and online photo albums. Social media have altered the way people spend their time and communicate with each other; this includes mental health professionals. It is imperative that therapists are knowledgeable about the ways social media affects clients' personal interactions as well as the ethical implications of their own professional use of social media. Professional organizations do not provide adequate ethical guidelines for therapeutic practice regarding social media; therefore, ethical codes should be adjusted to include the new media as they arise. After reviewing related literature from other mental health disciplines, the authors offer recommendations to be integrated into the professional ethical codes for mental health professionals to ensure the ethical use of social media in therapy. The authors organize their recommendations around several key principles from various mental health codes of ethics.
Examining the victim's causal attributions and attribution style associated with sexual abuse may add to the understanding of how survivors make meaning of such experiences and create the related narratives. Through the use of optimism in narrative therapy, the survivor is encouraged to deconstruct the dominant story of being a victim and making new, personal meanings in order to broaden the possibility for other plot-lines and preferredstories with the problems related to sexual abuse being attributed to external, unstable and specific factors. By using the questions that the authors of this paper propose, the therapist can help to deconstruct their dominant stories and create a more optimistic subjugated story.
Examining the victim's causal attributions and attribution style associated with sexual abuse may add to the understanding of how survivors make meaning of such experiences and create the related narratives. Through the use of optimism in narrative therapy, the survivor is encouraged to deconstruct the dominant story of being a victim and making new, personal meanings in order to broaden the possibility for other plot-lines and preferred stories with the problems related to sexual abuse being attributed to external, unstable and specific factors. By using the questions that the authors of this paper propose, the therapist can help to deconstruct their dominant stories and create a more optimistic subjugated story.
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