Archive for May, 2009
Radio Interview with Kate Anthony Sat 11.20!
4FM Ireland has a Weekend Breakfast show with Michael Comyn, and will be interviewing Kate Anthony live at 11.20 BST on Saturday 30th May about online therapy – listen live online at http://www.4fm.ie/listen_live.asp !
Kate and DeeAnna
Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) – potential for online services!
Working in partnership with some of the biggest names in music, sport and clubbing, CALM encourages young men to ‘open up’ and sort out their problems. CALM has built a strong presence through the internet, club flyers, posters, beer mats, gigs, comedy nights and in the media.
BACP Guidelines now available online!
It is available for members via the members area of the website. Once logged in, members can click on ‘Online Counselling Guidelines’ and they can view the whole document for free.
Non-members need to pay £3.50 to access this and can do this via the online bookshop (www.bacp.co.uk/shop). Once they’ve paid they need to go to http://www.bacp.co.uk/members/online/ and log in with the email address and password they entered at time of payment. Non-members will have to wait until the payment has been processed until they can access it, so are advised to wait 24 hours from making payment before trying to log in. These instructions for access are also explained on the shop.
Enjoy!
Are you a Helping Professional? Do you Have a Website?
It is official. I build websites. If you are a regular reader to this blog you know that I am a psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer and much of my work is about online therapy. I see clients in my office and online, I offer consultation to therapists who are considering adding online therapy to their suite of services, I train and conduct keynotes, and in my spare time I write!
But over the past year or so I have also assisted people with website builds. I started out helping therapists build sites that integrated online therapy services, but lately I have been approached by others who just want a simple site to describe what they do. And guess what? I love the builds! It is a creative outlet for me! I am not a webmaster so I do not offer flash and other fancy plugins, but I can build a sturdy site for people who do not know how, don’t want to learn or just don’t want to take the time. Once I complete the build, I can show someone how to maintain the site themselves, or I can make changes as needed.
So, if you are shopping around, check me out. This site describes my web build services in more detail: www.therapyonlinewebsitedesign.com
Here are a few sites I have built:
DeeAnna
GSCSW Discusses Boundaries and Use of Email in Cyberspace
The Georgia Society for Clinical Social Work in conjunction with NASW Georgia Chapter recently invited me facilitate a workshop entitled Ethical Implications of Cyberspace: Understanding the Clinical Risks and Responsibilities. It has been a little over a week since I returned from Georgia having experienced a most welcoming group of workshop attendees. GSCSW recently published an article in their newsletter entitled Protecting Boundaries in a Boundary-less World- Part 1 of an Ongoing Discussion- Setting Boundaries in the Use of Email in Clinical Social Work. I look forward to reading the next discussion in this series following the workshop!
The workshop went quite well and we spent the afternoon working in small groups, pondering over 10 ethical dilemnas. Each group gave feedback on how they would handle the scenario. Kate and I brainstormed the scenarios and intentionallly developed them ranging from obvious…to …oh, that would never happen! The workshop attendees had great feedback, thoughts and ideas about all 10 scenarios and it was such an eye-opening experience for all of us- the workshop attendees and Kate and myself, that we are going to present the scenarios one by one over the course of several weeks here on the blog. We hope to generate loads of comments and thought-provoking discussion.
Stay tuned for mind-stretch ethical dilemnas! As we all navigate the waters of online therapy, cyberpsychology and boundaries in cyberspace let’s put our collective heads together and see what we can come up with! In the meantime, check out the GSCSW article!
Thanks again Georgia social workers! You rock!
DeeAnna
Kate’s summary of the OCTIA conference!!
This conference was held at Leicester University on April 25, 2009 and was attended by approximately 35 delegates, with a further 40 online delegates who attended at various points remotely via a live feed, including both video stream from the face-to-face conference and remote chatroom debate concurrently.
The event was opened by Gill Jones of ACTO and Counselling Online Ltd – co-hosts of the conference. An exciting and evolving programme emerged throughout the day, starting with a keynote from Jeannie Wright of New Zealand giving a remote presentation (pre-recorded) on “Only Connect”, covering some of the research linking expressive and reflective writing with online therapies. A representative of BACP brought along copies of the Guidelines for purchase (see http://www.bacp.co.uk/publications/NEW%20PUBLICATIONS/onlinecounselling.php).
A change of programme meant that Dr. Stephen Goss, co-author of the recently published 3rd Edition of the BACP Guidelines for Online Counselling and Psychotherapy, including Guidelines for Online Supervision (Anthony & Goss, 2009), stepped in at the last minute to explain the contents of the publication and the implications for the profession from a wider perspective regarding international ethical development of the field.
Due to further programme changes, the day evolved to include three workshops to run simultaneously – Anne Stokes on Online Supervision, Jane Evans on working online in HE and FE, and Gill Webb hosting a live online chat taster session.
Keynote speakers included Steph Palin covering the work of Relate with a live demonstration of how their chatroom support helps – a neat amalgamation of chat and website links within the same client screen. Joe Ferns talked delegates through the work of the Samaritans online, with some stunning statistics and illustration of the exchanges the organisation receives through mobile texting.
The keynote in the latter part of the afternoon hosted a video interview with Audrey Jung (Pres-Elect of ISMHO) by Kate Anthony (Past-President of ISMHO) as interviewer about the state of play in the US, before going live to New Jersey to chat with DeeAnna Merz Nagel (also Past-President of ISMHO) as commentator on the interview and to answer delegate questions.
The panel of speakers, led by Anne Stokes, then answered questions from the floor for 50 minutes.
Although this was a small conference on a specialist subject, it is a great step forward for the profession in linking with people all over the world in not only observing the face-to-face presentations but also contributing from the OCTIA chatroom. The chatroom, facilitated by the organisers, Kate Anthony and Stephen Goss – was projected onto the side wall of the conference suite so that the live chat and questions to the presenters emanating from it could be fed to the keynote speakers. Furthermore, the conference will, with the help of OnlineEvents.co.uk, be available for download from the OCTIA website – including the pre-conference interviews with Gill Jones, Kate Anthony, and DeeAnna Merz Nagel – watch http://www.octia.org.uk.
Kate Anthony, MSc, FBACP
Interesting article on Cyberpsychology
ReachOut.com.au is a youth targeted website providing support and information about mental illness. The Australian, an online newspaper, gives an interesting perspective with opinions from experts internationally, about ”Cyberspychology” and how it can help. More here:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25376388-23289,00.html
Kate