1st Edition
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Transformed the Mental Health Landscape Transitioning to Telepsychotherapy Effectively, Volume I
This book is a valuable historical record of how counselling psychologists responded to the COVID-19 pandemic around the globe. Volume I includes 14 chapters that address topics associated with transferring counselling practice online. Several chapters focus on transitioning to online therapy from face-to-face contact, including the effect of such a transition on the therapeutic relationship, and working with clients’ emotional processes online.
Written by prominent researchers and clinicians in the field of counselling and psychotherapy, both the volumes together cover a wide range of perspectives and offer useful clinical recommendations related to effective telepsychotherapy practice. The chapters in these volumes were originally published as a special issue of Counselling Psychology Quarterly.
Foreword: Marshall McLuhan and the therapeutic importance of the telephone
Jesse D. Geller
Preface
Shigeru Iwakabe and Sarah Knox
Part I: Transitioning to Telepsychotherapy
1 Telepsychotherapy: a leaflet for psychotherapists in the age of COVID- 19. A review of the evidence
Barbara Poletti et al.
2 Transitioning to virtual programming amidst COVID- 19 outbreak
Alejandra Sequeira et al.
3 Mental- health care under threat: a pragmatic approach for ethical decision-making for practitioners in COVID- 19
M. Bar, E. Fish and S. Mendlovic
4 Psychotherapy at a public hospital in the time of COVID- 19: telehealth and implications for practice
Zoe Silver, Mikaela Coger, Sebastian Barr and Rebecca Drill
5 A brief transdiagnostic pandemic mental health maintenance intervention
Trisha Arnold et al.
Part II: Therapeutic Relationship
6 Cultivating online therapeutic presence: strengthening therapeutic relationships in teletherapy sessions
Shari Geller
7 Repairing alliance ruptures using supportive techniques in telepsychotherapy during the COVID- 19 pandemic
Tohar Dolev- Amit, Liat Leibovich and Sigal Zilcha- Mano
8 Grappling with our therapeutic relationship and professional self- doubt during COVID- 19: will we use video therapy again?
Katie Aafjes- van Doorn, Vera Békés and Tracy A. Prout
9 When distance brings us closer: leveraging tele- psychotherapy to build deeper connection
Cory K. Chen et al.
10 A methodology to improve eye contact in telepsychotherapy via videoconferencing with considerations for psychological distance
F. Grondin, A. M. Lomanowska, V. Békés and P. L. Jackson
11 Let’s face it: video conferencing psychotherapy requires the extensive use of ostensive cues
Shimrit Fisher, Timur Guralnik, Peter Fonagy and Sigal Zilcha- Mano
Part III: Working with Emotions
12 Clinical recommendations for psychotherapists working during the coronavirus (COVID- 19) pandemic through the lens of AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy)
Hillary L. McBride, Andrew J. Joseph, Peter G. Schmitt and Brett M. Holtz
13 Work with emotions in remote psychotherapy in the time of Covid- 19: a clinical experience
Alexine Thompson- de Benoit and Ueli Kramer
14 Emotion- focused and video- technology considerations in the COVID- 19 crisis
Allan Abbass and Jasen Elliott
Biography
Shigeru Iwakabe is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ritsumeikan University in Osaka, Japan. He conducts psychotherapy research on client emotional processes from an integrative perspective. His research interests include training and professional development in psychotherapy, case study research methods, psychotherapy integration, and cultural and social issues related to the practice of psychotherapy.
Sarah Knox is Professor in the Department of Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA. The vast majority of her research is qualitative, and specifically uses consensual qualitative research (CQR). She focuses primarily on the psychotherapy relationship and process, training and supervision, and advising relationships and processes.
