Description
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.
An essential resource for mental health practitioners, providing guidance on best practice for digital delivery of mental health treatment and support
About the Author
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.
Reviews
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. -- From the foreword by John Powell, Professor of Digital Health Care, University of Oxford
...skillfully combines robust scholarship with carefully selected clinical vignettes and 'practical examples', offering concrete suggestions on how to use technology to provide clients with a beneficial experience.
It has the potential to become a landmark text and to inform the understanding of the benefits of 'digital therapy', for current and future generations of clinicians.
Book Information
ISBN 9781787757240
Author Hannah Wilson
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publisher Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Weight(grams) 420g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 18mm
