Online Therapy

BSHS/352 - Technology in Human Services

Online Therapy

The majority of Americans consider talking to someone who cares about him or her to be helpful in dealing with common daily stress; such as when a daughter who is away from home in college, she Skype Internet calls her mom complaining that a particular professor requires too much work from his students. The majority of Americans may consider that therapeutic but that falls short of online therapy. Therapist Bea Arthur informed VentureBeat, "There's still a stigma attached to therapy, and I think people see it as intimidating or expensive But the fact remains that most people would love the chance to be listened to genuinely and objectively" (Odell, 2011, para. 4). That sigma is a part of why online therapy is...