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Counselling Tutor

166 – Is Online Therapy Effective?

Counselling Tutor

Ken Kelly and Rory Lees-Oakes

Education, Courses

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Self-Concept and the Johari Window - Writing Counselling Notes In episode 166 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Ken Kelly and Rory Lees-Oakes kick off with the Student Check-in, talking about self-concept and how the Johari window can be used to promote personal development. 'The Digital Counselling Revolution' then focuses on the question 'Is online therapy effective' and the research evidence for its effectiveness. Then, in 'Practice Matters', the presenters provide tips on writing counselling notes. Self-Concept and the Johari Window (starts at 1.20 mins) We choose topics for this section from emails that we receive or from posts on our Facebook page. In the Counselling Tutor Facebook group, you can connect with over 33,000 students, tutors, qualified counsellors and supervisors. It's a great opportunity to ask any questions and discuss your learning, getting other people's ideas and input into your learning. Questions about self-concept crop up quite regularly there. In this podcast, Rory and Ken explore what self-concept is, focusing on the Johari window as a tool that can really help in identifying your self-concept and working towards living fully as your real self. Named after its creators, Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham, the Johari window comprises four 'panes', corresponding to aspects that are: known to self and known to others not known to self but known to others known to self but not known to others known neither to self nor to others. Ken and Rory look at how each of these four areas fits with counselling training and practice, pointing out that the model is relevant to qualified practitioners as well as to new students of counselling and psychotherapy. As we continue to grow in self-awareness, we gradually reveal more and more of the unknown areas, enabling us to move forward further and further in our personal development. A new lecture ­on self-concept- by counsellor and trainer Emma Chapman ­­- has recently been added to the Counselling Study Resource (CSR). In addition, Rory has created a handout on the Johari window, which you can download here or access through the CSR. Is Online Therapy Effective? (starts at 14.50 mins) It might seem that online therapy is a very new phenomenon, but in fact research has been going on into this for some time. For example, in 2017, Aisling Treanor - in her doctoral thesis - researched the extent to which relational depth can be reached online. Ken describes his own story of just how effective online therapy can be, of how effective it can be to build a relationship remotely. Treanor reviews various research studies, including a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of internet-based psychotherapeutic interventions by Barak et al. in 2008. She notes that internet-based interventions were found to be more effective in treating psychological problems (such as PTSD, panic and anxiety) than in treating physiological or somatic disorders (2017: 16). She also observes that young people (aged 19 to 24) and mid-range adults (aged 25 to 39) seem to gain more from internet-based therapy than those aged 18 or younger and than older (40-plus) adults (2017:16). Ken and Rory talk about possible reasons for this. So is online therapy effective? It seems that relational depth can be experienced by some individuals online, while others are unable to reach that level of depth with their therapist, despite experiencing it face-to-face. This seems likely to lead to a 'mixed economy' where some clients may enjoy working online and find a real connection with their therapist, while others may really struggle with it and so may prefer face-to-face sessions. This topic is explored in a blog post by Mick Cooper, entitled 'Relational Depth in Online Therapy: Can it be experienced, and what facilitates and inhibits it?' Writing Counselling Notes (starts at 25.30 mins)

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Counseling Tutor podcast, the must listen to podcast for students of

0:07.6

counseling and psychotherapy. Here are your hosts, Rory Lee's Oaks and Ken Kelly. Hello, I'm

0:16.2

Rory and with me as always is Ken. How are you doing, Ken? I'm exceptionally well.

0:21.1

I hope that you listening to this are well too.

0:23.9

You've joined us on the Counselling Tutor podcast,

0:26.7

and this is episode 166.

0:29.8

We have three areas that we're going to be dipping in today.

0:32.6

The first one is our student check-in,

0:34.8

where we speak about something related to studying of counselling.

0:38.5

Then we're going to go into the counselling digital revolution,

0:42.3

where we speak about how therapy is now working through the lens of modern-day technology.

0:47.9

And we're going to be ending with practice matters where we kind of look at something that may present in the practice of counselling.

0:54.9

And in our student check-in, we're going to be speaking about self-concept and focusing on the

0:59.8

Jihari window in digital counselling revolution.

1:03.5

We're going to be speaking about what the effectiveness of online therapy is.

1:08.3

What is the research telling us today?

1:10.0

And we're going to be ending with

1:11.1

practice matters, remembering what to write in the notes after a session. So let's start off

1:17.8

with our student check-in, self-concept Jihari window. Yeah, so we're obviously grateful

1:24.5

for our contributors. And most of them, most of the contributions,

1:29.2

either come from the mailbag or from our Facebook page. And if you want to join our Facebook page,

1:34.4

you can find it by going into Facebook, typing in counseling tutor. And you'll find us with a

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