Main description:

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.

Contents:

Foreword: Marshall McLuhan and the therapeutic importance of the telephone Preface Part I: Transitioning to Telepsychotherapy 1. Telepsychotherapy: a leaflet for psychotherapists in the age of COVID-19. A review of the evidence 2. Transitioning to virtual programming amidst COVID-19 outbreak 3. Mental-health care under threat: a pragmatic approach for ethical decision-making for practitioners in COVID-19 4. Psychotherapy at a public hospital in the time of COVID-19: telehealth and implications for practice 5. A brief transdiagnostic pandemic mental health maintenance intervention Part II: Therapeutic Relationship 6. Cultivating online therapeutic presence: strengthening therapeutic relationships in teletherapy sessions 7. Repairing alliance ruptures using supportive techniques in telepsychotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic 8. Grappling with our therapeutic relationship and professional self- doubt during COVID-19: will we use video therapy again? 9. When distance brings us closer: leveraging tele- psychotherapy to build deeper connection 10. A methodology to improve eye contact in telepsychotherapy via videoconferencing with considerations for psychological distance 11. Let's face it: video conferencing psychotherapy requires the extensive use of ostensive cues 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) 13. Work with emotions in remote psychotherapy in the time of Covid-19: a clinical experience 14. Emotion-focused and video-technology considerations in the COVID-19 crisis