Counselling via Email: Applying Therapeutic Letter-Writing Skills to New Technologies
Whether to offer counselling via email to students is a subject of much current debate. Issues such as confidentiality, record-keeping and effectiveness of the intervention are important ones to consider. Narrative therapists have contributed much to the development of therapeutic writing skills and...
| Published in: | JANZSSA |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association (ANZSSA)
2002-04-01
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| Online Access: | https://janzssa.scholasticahq.com/article/91770-counselling-via-email-applying-therapeutic-letter-writing-skills-to-new-technologies |
| Summary: | Whether to offer counselling via email to students is a subject of much current debate. Issues such as confidentiality, record-keeping and effectiveness of the intervention are important ones to consider. Narrative therapists have contributed much to the development of therapeutic writing skills and letter-writing is often used as an effective adjunct to therapy and, at times, as the sole means of therapy. This paper will discuss some of the principles of therapeutic writing and how this can be applied to email counselling. Examples will be provided from actual cases, of work with clients who have given their permission for this material to be used. The views of two such clients about their experiences of email counselling will also be presented and there will be discussion about the process and the practical and ethical dilemmas surrounding email counselling. |
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| ISSN: | 1320-2480 2207-8460 |