This guide shares best practice for delivering mental health support and treatment digitally. Part One considers aspects relevant to all digital mental health interventions, such as therapeutic alliance, risk, safeguarding, working with complexity, and what people are looking for from digital support. Part Two focuses on specific therapies and models, including CBT, ACT, DBT, CFT, CAT and EMDR, and how they can be adapted for digital delivery. Whatever technology is available to you, this book will support you in taking your practice onto whichever digital platforms both you, and your clients feel comfortable with. With top tips from a wide range of practitioners, this book opens a conversation about the benefits, challenges and best practice for delivering mental health therapies using digital platforms.
Dr Hannah Wilson is Clinical Psychology Lead and Head of Clinical Governance for Kooth PLC, which uses technology to help create new ways for people to access mental health support and treatment. She is also the Director of MediaCity Psychology, and a trustee of the British Eating Disorders Society. She is based in Lancashire, UK.
Foreword 1. INTRODUCTION PART ONE: CROSS-THERAPY FACTORS 2. THE ONLINE THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE: THE NEED FOR DIGITAL COMPETENCE AND ONLINE RELATIONAL SKILL 3. BEING HUMAN AMONGST THE 0's AND 1's: SELF-CARE AND SUPERVISION 4. DIGITAL SAFEGUARDING & RISK: COME ON IN, YOU'RE WELCOME & SAFE 5. TO KNOW OR NOT TO KNOW - MANAGING ANONYMITY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS 6. WHAT DO PEOPLE LOOK FOR FROM DIGITAL SUPPORT? 7. USING DIGITAL MEDIUMS TO PROVIDE TRAUMA-INFORMED SUPPORT TO PEOPLE WITH COMPLEX PRESENTATIONS 8. MENTAL HEALTH APPS: ROLES, RISKS & OPPORTUNITIES PART TWO: SPECIFIC THERAPIES AND ADAPTATIONS 9. DIGITAL ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY 10.DIGITAL DELIVERY OF COGNITIVE ANALYTIC THERAPY 11.DELIVERING DIGITAL COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY 12.COMPUTERISED COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE 13.DELIVERING COMPASSION FOCUSED THERAPY VIA DIGITAL PLATFORMS 14.SCIENTIFIC ARTISTRY IN THE WORLD OF DIGITALLY-DELIVERED COUNSELLING 15.USING TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE THE REACH AND EFFICIENCY OF DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY 16.DIGITAL EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITISATION AND REPROCESSING 17.DELIVERING MINDFULNESS GROUPS BY VIDEO CONFERENCING 18.DELIVERING FAMILY THERAPY AND SYSTEMIC INTERVENTIONS USING DIGITAL PLATFORMS 19.USING VIRTUAL REALITY TO TREAT ANXIETY 20.'Top Tips' for Delivering Mental Health Therapies Using Digital Platforms Tables and Figures
An essential resource for mental health practitioners, providing guidance on best practice for digital delivery of mental health treatment and support
This text will be a useful reference for clinicians harnessing the benefits of the range of online psychological approaches, and learning the lessons from others in order to overcome the challenges. It will also be a valuable -- From the foreword by John Powell, Professor of Digital Health Care, University of Oxford
