Lessons from the Transition to Relational Teletherapy During COVID‐19

Burgoyne, Nancy; Cohn, Aaron

doi:10.1111/famp.12589

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“…The broad findings of this review fit with our practice‐near experiences over recent months and with the plethora of practitioner accounts describing digital working practice during the pandemic. These foreground clinicians’ reflections on the ‘lift and shift’ experience of moving couple, family and systemic interventions online (see for example Amorin‐Woods et al ., 2020, Burgoyne and Cohn, 2020, Frankael and Cho, 2020, Gurwitch et al ., 2020, Helps, 2020, Matheson, Bohon and Lock, 2020, Nadan et al ., 2020, Probst, Stippl and Pieh, 2020, Taffagli et al ., 2020).…”

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Synchronous digital couple and family psychotherapy: a meta‐narrative review

Helps

Grinney

2021

Journal of Family Therapy

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Objective Our objective was to identify, review and synthesise the findings of articles regarding the practice of synchronous digital couple and family psychotherapy over the past three decades. Methods A meta‐narrative approach was adopted. Results Thirty‐one papers were identified for inclusion in the review, including nine descriptions of practice and 22 empirical studies. Conclusions Findings show that practitioners have used synchronous digital technologies in their work over decades. Psychoeducative and cognitive‐behaviourally oriented hybrid, self‐directed synchronous family and couple psychotherapeutic interventions have been found to be feasible, effective with diverse populations, are associated with good user satisfaction, and are found to have similar clinical outcomes to in‐person psychotherapy. Further research is required. Practitioner points Over the past 30 years there has been increasing interest in utilising new technologies in couple and family psychotherapeutic interventions to improve access to services and to help with a variety of presenting problems For families and couples, interventions involving web‐based psychoeducative material combined with ‐ often minimal ‐ synchronous therapeutic or coaching input seem feasible, acceptable and effective More quantitative and qualitative research into digitally mediated couple, family and systemic psychotherapy is required to determine what works, with whom and how it works in practice.

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Synchronous digital couple and family psychotherapy: a meta‐narrative review

Helps

Grinney

2021

Journal of Family Therapy

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“…Communicating with each other online created less burden and stress than face‐to‐face interactions for the couple, enabling new communication patterns to develop. As noted by Burgoyne and Cohn (2020), online therapy can help reduce the intensity of tensions among conflicted couples.…”

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The COVID‐19 Pandemic and Families in Japan

Shibusawa¹,

Ishii²,

Shin-Ichi

et al. 2021

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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This paper, which is authored by members of the Japanese Association of Family Therapy (JAFT), describes the COVID‐19 pandemic in Japan from a family systems perspective. The authors are active members of JAFT and include current and past presidents and officers. We describe the course of the pandemic and the ways in which government policies to mitigate the pandemic have affected Japanese families. Challenges that affect Japanese families include the inability to participate in family and social rituals, prescribed gender roles that specifically affect women, high suicide rates, and prejudice against those who are at risk of spreading the infection. The need to shelter in place has also forced family homes to function as a workplace for parents, classrooms for children, and day care services for frail elders, which has resulted in psychological distress among individuals and conflicts among families. We discuss ways that therapists have worked with Japanese families using online therapy.

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“…Given the mental and physical health challenges presented by COVID‐19, online groups and group therapy interventions are becoming more prevalent (Marmarosh, Forsyth, Strauss and Burlingame, 2020). There has been an appeal made by mental health practitioners to embrace and adapt teletherapy to address relational concerns during the COVID‐19 pandemic (Burgoyne and Cohn, 2020).…”

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Facilitator lessons from online psychoeducational group for relational well‐being in India during COVID‐19 pandemic

Joshi

Chatterjee

et al. 2021

Journal of Family Therapy

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has affected the mental health of individuals, along with their couple and familial relationships, necessitating an effective response. Teletherapy offers an option to address these relationship concerns amidst pandemic‐specific mobility restriction. Against this setting, Sukoon, a project of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India, initiated a five‐session online psychoeducational group series on relational wellbeing. This paper explores facilitator’s reflections and learnings based on session documentation and facilitator notes. Preparing well and selecting participants carefully for online psychoeducational groups was critical to success. Effectiveness was enhanced by flexibly adapting the therapy process (didactic and interactive elements) to fit online delivery and the cultural context. Identifying the potential of online psychoeducational groups for relational wellbeing could make it a valuable addition to the COVID‐19 pandemic mental health response toolkit. Practitioner points Effective preparation and careful selection of group members is key to the success of therapist facilitated online psychoeducational groups. Psychoeducational groups comprising didactic and interactive elements are more suitable for effective online group processes. Use of co‐facilitators managing various channels of communication (audio, chat) is important. Group facilitators need to be cognisant of challenges of online medium and address them in an ongoing manner.

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Lessons from the Transition to Relational Teletherapy During COVID‐19

Cited by 111 publications

References 45 publications

Synchronous digital couple and family psychotherapy: a meta‐narrative review

Synchronous digital couple and family psychotherapy: a meta‐narrative review

The COVID‐19 Pandemic and Families in Japan

Facilitator lessons from online psychoeducational group for relational well‐being in India during COVID‐19 pandemic

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