{"title":"The challenge of security and accessibility: Critical perspectives on the rapid move to online therapies in the age of COVID‐19","authors":"Julia Ioane, C. Knibbs, Keith Tudor","doi":"10.1002/ppi.1581","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article offers some critiques of the rapid move to online therapies in response to the restriction of movement and in‐person psychotherapeutic and psychological practice, imposed by necessary responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic. The critique is informed by concerns about the security of online therapeutic practice; informed by, but not restricted to, legislation and practice in the United Kingdom. Furthermore, it includes cultural perspectives regarding healthcare provision, specifically with Pacific communities in Aotearoa New Zealand and, more broadly, with regard to disadvantaged and vulnerable clients and communities throughout the world. The article offers a framework that accounts for the challenge of making practical, culturally appropriate, and therapeutic decisions about the security and accessibility of online therapeutic practice.","PeriodicalId":42499,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy and Politics International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ppi.1581","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychotherapy and Politics International","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ppi.1581","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 9
Abstract
Abstract This article offers some critiques of the rapid move to online therapies in response to the restriction of movement and in‐person psychotherapeutic and psychological practice, imposed by necessary responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic. The critique is informed by concerns about the security of online therapeutic practice; informed by, but not restricted to, legislation and practice in the United Kingdom. Furthermore, it includes cultural perspectives regarding healthcare provision, specifically with Pacific communities in Aotearoa New Zealand and, more broadly, with regard to disadvantaged and vulnerable clients and communities throughout the world. The article offers a framework that accounts for the challenge of making practical, culturally appropriate, and therapeutic decisions about the security and accessibility of online therapeutic practice.
期刊介绍:
Psychotherapy and Politics International explores the connections and interactions between politics and psychotherapy, both in theory and in practice. It focuses on the application to political problematics of thinking that originates in the field of psychotherapy, and equally on the application within the field of psychotherapy of political concepts and values internationally. The journal welcomes articles from all modalities or schools of psychotherapy and from across the political spectrum.