The Georgia Society for Clinical Social Work in conjunction with NASW Georgia Chapter recently invited me facilitate a workshop entitled Ethical Implications of Cyberspace: Understanding the Clinical Risks and Responsibilities. It has been a little over a week since I returned from Georgia having experienced a most welcoming group of workshop attendees. GSCSW recently published an article… [Read More]
Kate’s summary of the OCTIA conference!!
This conference was held at Leicester University on April 25, 2009 and was attended by approximately 35 delegates, with a further 40 online delegates who attended at various points remotely via a live feed, including both video stream from the face-to-face conference and remote chatroom debate concurrently. The event was opened by Gill Jones… [Read More]
MACHS Presentation: The Impact of Technology on Mental Health
I am honored to have been a part of the Mid-Atlantic Consortium for Human Services. The 2009 Annual Conference was held at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, NJ. I am adjunt faculty at the college teaching Introduction to Psychology. The focus of the conference: Improving the Health and Wellness of Human Services Receipients and Providers:… [Read More]
Online Therapy- Jurisdiction issues in the United States
Hi everyone! I recently received the February 2009 edition of Psychotherapy Finances. In this issue a question submitted for comment asked about whether or not an online therapist has to be licensed in every state to offer online therapy. The article is not available online but here are some highlights from the response: Web-cam therapy… [Read More]
BACP Guidelines released on 23rd March!
New publication Guidelines for online counselling and psychotherapy, 3rd edition Including Guidelines for online supervision By Kate Anthony and Stephen Goss This new publication provides up-to-date guidance for best practice for those involved in the provision of counselling and psychotherapy over the internet. A perfect resource for online counsellors and managers of… [Read More]
Photo Shoot in Second Life- What Time Zone??
Kate and I received an email from Ananda Valeeva who is the Editor-in-Chief of Inner World Magazine. She is writing an article on behaviors, emotions and the therapeutic value of virtual worlds. She came across the Online Therapy Institute and has included the institute in her article. So she wanted to let us know and asked if… [Read More]
The Online Disinhibition Effect
Update April 2013: . This summary was recently expanded into an article for Self & Society, Journal of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. . See the full article here: Appreciating Cyberculture and the Virtual Self Within by Kate Anthony and DeeAnna Nagel . John Suler’s Disinhibition Effect as summarised by Kate Anthony You Don’t Know… [Read More]
New Book: Therapy Online [A Practical Guide]
Kate and DeeAnna have been working feverishly on our new book and while we are completing the first draft we thought we would share with you what we received in the post today! Sage has listed the book in the latest catalogue and it should show on Amazon soon. The book will be hot off the press in… [Read More]
