- When I was 16 I decided I wanted to be a therapist. Of course I wandered off that track from time to time, but I always returned. After attaining a counselling diploma in 2007 I discovered the internet as a vehicle for therapeutic interventions and began providing free counselling to anyone who wanted it—sourcing client’s mainly through Myspace. I was amazed at how busy I became, I made it quite clear I was a student in training, no-one seemed to mind, they just wanted someone to talk to. After promoting my free services in the virtual world of Second Life, I began forming waiting lists just to cope. After completing a literature review called ‘The Efficacy of Online Text-Based Therapeutic Interventions’ my confidence in the industry increased. Next year I will be undertaking an empirical honours thesis, investigating online counselling. The following year I hope to take my investigations further with a research degree. After this I'd like to help others learn online counselling skills, help develop online specific therapeutic application frameworks, supervise other online therapists and perhaps develop a handbook for future practitioners. I hope this blog will attract like minded people and we can share and discuss our experiences of cyberpsychology.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
A little about me
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I don't know much about cyberpsychology, but I have heard of new web tools that will facilitate assessment. Not just online surveys and questionnaires, but also perceptual decision-making tests that can be done online and perhaps reveal some very general but insightful cognitive processes.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely Muka,
ReplyDeleteIt seems only natural that assessment that was once done by answering on paper, is now done on computers and inevitably the internet. There are certainly interactive computer programs that give great insight into a persons cognitive processes. One of the challenges facing researches in this field is that the internet and users of internet often have delays, when timing is important, assessment is interrupted.