Skaypoterapiya makes life easier for patients and psychologists

Sessions at the psychotherapist now do not require a visit to a specialist office, where the patient should sit or lie down on a soft couch, telling everyone that he is eating. New technologies brought these meetings the World Wide Web.

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In Britain, the therapists working in public clinics and assisting citizens of the state insurance are now able to carry out psychotherapy   In Internet. The patient can broadcast from anywhere: at home, in the car, the bench of city park or the pool. You can use the video broadcast, but you can correspond with a doctor in real time or step by step to follow a special computer program that is designed for cognitive behavioral therapy .

"Benefits psychotherapy   the internet is undeniable, - says psychotherapist Joanna Bawa, who is already actively communicate with patients through a network. - First, you deny the laws of geography, as to get in touch with the patient, wherever he was, even if thousands of kilometers away from you. Secondly, this kind of therapy uses a much more flexible time schedule. Patients do not need time off from work, do not invite the nurse to sit with the kids, do not spend money on travel. "

Bava stresses that the anonymity of these sessions is especially valued by men, which is easier to admit their own weaknesses if they do not look at this woman-therapist in the eye. But is this skaypoterapiya, as it is called by many, working? After the intimacy of personal meetings therapist and patient, as studies have shown, it is one of the key secrets of success in treatment.

A 2009 study, the results of which were published in the journal The Lancet, showed that   cognitive behavioral therapy   by sending messages through the Internet has given a greater effect for 300 patients with depression than traditional sessions. Well, videoconferencing virtually skaypoterapiyu closer to the more common still encounters patients and psychologists in private. (READ MORE)

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