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What is Professionally Delivered Therapy Websites

Chapter 53
Handbook of Research on Developments in E-Health and Telemedicine: Technological and Social Perspectives
These therapeutic websites are becoming more and more abundant and are typically run by professionally trained practitioners who have diversified their services to include an online adjunct to their offline services (e.g., counsellors, psychotherapists).
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Online Advice, Guidance and Counseling for Problem Gamblers
Mark Griffiths (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-670-4.ch053
Abstract
Clinicians cannot afford to ignore the Internet. Psychological advice, help and treatment for addicts are no exceptions with both counseling and psychotherapy entering the computer age. The chapter overviews the main issues in the area and approaches the discussion acknowledging that online therapy has to be incorporated within the overall framework of the need for clinical assistance. The chapter also provides brief overviews of some websites as illustrative examples of what types of online help and therapy are available. The chapter makes particular reference to online help for problem gamblers and overviews the only study to date that evaluates the effectiveness of an online help and guidance service for a particular type of addiction (i.e., problem gambling).
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