ArticleHeliyon2024
Online psychotherapy as a first clinical experience during the Covid-19 pandemic: A new generation of psychotherapists in the digital age.
Article in Heliyon, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Digitally Enhanced Routine Outcome Monitoring in Italian Psychotherapy: Protocol for a Longitudinal Implementation Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Assessment of a Digital Platform for Routine Outcome Monitoring in Psychotherapy: Usability Study and Thematic Analysis.JMIR medical informatics · 2025Article
- The digital extension of the psychotherapeutic field and the role of the body in online therapy: a grounded theory study with psychotherapists in training.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
The temporary closure of the Outpatient Psychotherapy Clinic at the Sigmund Freud Private University in Vienna during the Covid-19 pandemic demanded an immediate and unexpected reaction to assure further psychotherapeutic services. Both psychotherapists and patients were forced into a rapid transition to online psychotherapy. While Covid-19 research has comprehensively described challenges of online psychotherapies, we were interested in learning specifically how early stage psychotherapists-in-training, who started their clinical work with patients exclusively in the online setting, experienced this unprecedented clinical situation. Sixteen in-depth interviews were conducted with psychotherapists in training. The data were analyzed using a thematic analysis. The analysis revealed how psychotherapists in training were able to cultivate a set of early-training resources and competencies in the online therapy setting without evidence-based guidelines from supervisors and the institution. This study highlighted the necessity of incorporating specific and novel educational input that is necessary for achieving specific online skills in the early training phase. Recognizing that the therapeutic landscape has undergone an irreversible transformation, the data suggest that distinct techniques are necessary to equip early-training psychotherapists for the now commonly practiced alternation between online setting and in-person setting in psychotherapeutic processes.
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