Of Cyberspace, Managed Care, and Family Counseling: Entering the 21st Century

Stevens-Smith, Patricia

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“…Each of the 79 cyber articles is identified through abbreviated coding of the content categories and is embedded within the references section. The abbreviated codes used to indicate the content category of an article are as follows: clinical practice (CP), cybersex and couples (CS), education and training (ET), online support and resources (OS), teenager and child usage (TC), administrative and the business of therapy (AB), and cyber addiction (CA). These codes are indicated in the references section adjacent to the citation.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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How Many Bytes Does It Take? A Content Analysis of Cyber Issues in Couple and Family Therapy Journals

Blumer

Hertlein

Smith

et al. 2013

J Marital Family Therapy

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In the fifteen years since the explosion of the Internet, using cyber technology for work and social functions has exponentially increased. Yet, questions around how to manage such changes remain elusive in family therapy literature. In this investigation, we conducted a content analysis to determine to what extent marriage/couple and family therapy (M/CFT) journals have responded to the integration of the Internet in couple and family life. We found 79 of 13,274 articles across seventeen journals focused on the Internet in some capacity. Implications for clinical practice, training, and future research are discussed.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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How Many Bytes Does It Take? A Content Analysis of Cyber Issues in Couple and Family Therapy Journals

Blumer

Hertlein

Smith

et al. 2013

J Marital Family Therapy

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“…As Atkinson and Gold (2002) pointed out, the early agenda for eHealth was driven largely by the for-profit sector, and it is important that researchers and educators step in and learn to evaluate and use this delivery strategy ethically and effectively. Thus far, research on the use of the Internet for relationship health has focused on cybercounseling, or actual communications with a counselor (either live or via e-mails and chat-rooms) (Jencius & Sager, 2001; Pollack, 2006; Stevens-Smith, 1997). However, none of these studies has examined the efficacy of such interventions in a clinical trial.…”

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Relationship-Relevant and Family-Friendly eHealth: Innovations in Interactive Health Communication Systems

Roberts

Japuntich

2009

Marriage & Family Review

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As the reach of the Internet grows, eHealth is fast becoming a major adjunct to traditional delivery of health information and support worldwide. Existing Interactive health communication systems, however, typically target individual users, focus on individual rather than on relational health, and neglect the relational and familial context of individual health issues. Reviewing developments primarily in the United States, this article applies a “marriage and family lens” to examine web-based technologies for health and well-being and suggests innovations to make eHealth both relationship relevant and family friendly. Although recent innovations offer great promise for supporting the relational “fabric” of family life, specific cautions and the need for research on effectiveness are underscored.

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“…The use of digital technologies is well established in the broad field of psychotherapy, although early research focussed on couple and family interventions was notably absent (Backhaus et al ., 2012). While digital practices have not featured in the latest summaries of evidence for family and systemic psychotherapy (see Carr, 2019a,b), there has been increasing recognition that digital and other communication technologies can play a significant role in the conduct of couple, family and systemic psychotherapies (Stevens‐Smith, 1997, Negretti and Wieling, 2001, Livings, 2014, Bacigalupe et al ., 2014, Singh, 2014, Twist et al ., 2015, Borcsa and Pomini, 2017, Akyil et al ., 2017, Manfrida, Albertini and Eisenberg, 2017, Borcsa et al ., 2020). There are many useful reviews, opinion pieces and practice guidelines considering how digital and online working might be different to in‐person work (for example Jenicus and Sager 2001, Kuulasmaa et al ., 2004, Haberstroh et al ., 2014, Hertlein et al ., 2015, Hall, 2013, Caldwell et al ., 2017, Rollnick and Hellman 2019, Pennington et al ., 2017, Wrape and McGinn, 2018, Borcsa et al ., 2020), but there is no up to date systematic review of the digital couple and family psychotherapy literature.…”

Section: Introduction and Rationale: The Rise Of Digital Systemic Pramentioning

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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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Of Cyberspace, Managed Care, and Family Counseling: Entering the 21st Century

Cited by 3 publications

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How Many Bytes Does It Take? A Content Analysis of Cyber Issues in Couple and Family Therapy Journals

How Many Bytes Does It Take? A Content Analysis of Cyber Issues in Couple and Family Therapy Journals

Relationship-Relevant and Family-Friendly eHealth: Innovations in Interactive Health Communication Systems

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

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