Psychotherapy in the Age of Digitalization and Corona

Study results on the potential of E Psychotherapy in Austria – qualitative analysis

Authors

  • Martin Poltrum
  • Alfred Uhl
  • Hannah Poltrum

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15135/2020.8.2.1-24

Abstract

Due to the CoViD-19 pandemic, Austrian psychotherapists for the first time were entitled to practice psychotherapies via telephone or video telephony (e-psychotherapy) in mid-March 2020. A survey involving 717 Austrian psychotherapists was carried out to determine the experiences they made with these new treatment modalities and their attitude towards e-psychotherapeutic treatments prior and after this change. In the qualitative part of the study presented in this article, the advantages and disadvantages of e psychotherapy are compared to face-to-face treatment based on the surveyed therapists’ perceptions, with particular emphasis on the implications for interventions, methods and patient groups. For the quantitative part of the study consult the second article in this issue of the SFU Research Bulletin (02/2020).

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