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Title: | Stretching the analytic frame: Analytic therapists’ experiences with remote therapy during COVID-19. |
Authors: | Békés, Vera Aafjes-van Doorn, Katie Prout, Tracy A Hoffman, Leon 0000-0002-3650-5890 |
Keywords: | COVID-19 pandemic online therapy analytic therapists videoconferencing transition experiences Attitude of Health Personnel Coronavirus Infections Humans Pneumonia Viral Psychoanalytic Therapy Remote Consultation Videoconferencing Telemedicine Test Construction Therapists Online Surveys |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
Publisher: | US : Sage Publications |
Citation: | Békés, V., Aafjes-van Doorn, K., & Prout, T. A., & Hoffman, L. (2020). Stretching the analytic frame: Analytic therapists’ experiences with remote therapy during COVID-19. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. |
Series/Report no.: | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association; |
Abstract: | Remote therapy has been used by analytic therapists for quite some time, though many have been reluctant to use it regularly, out of concern that it might distort analytic frame and relational dynamics. Now the COVID-19 pandemic has forced therapists to make a sudden, across-the-board transition to remote therapy. This study reports on survey responses from 190 analytic therapists on their transition to online therapy via videoconferencing during the pandemic and their previous experience with remote therapy (the majority had such experience). During the pandemic they prepared themselves and their patients for the transition in a variety of ways. The majority of those surveyed reported feeling as confident and as competent in their online sessions as in their earlier in-person work. Moreover, despite technical and relational challenges, they remained as strong, emotionally connected, and authentic in their online therapy sessions as they were in person. These experiences during the pandemic led to more positive views of online therapy than they held before, but a majority still considered online therapy less effective than in-person sessions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) |
Description: | Scholarly article |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/9914 |
ISSN: | 0003-0651 (Print) 1941-2460 (Electronic) |
Appears in Collections: | Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology: Faculty Publications |
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