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Author L'Abate, Luciano

Title Distance Writing and Computer-Assisted Interventions in Psychiatry and Mental Health
Published Westport : Greenwood Pub. Group, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (248 pages)
Contents Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Distance Writing and Computer-Assisted Interventions in Psychiatry and Mental Health; 2 Explorations into the Health Benefits of Disclosure Inhibitory Cognitive and Social Processes; 3 Focused Expressive Writing, Immune Functions, and Physical Illness; 4 Comparison of Distance Emotional Expression with Psychotherapy; 5 A Meta-analytic Evaluation of Workbook Effectiveness in Physical and Mental Health; 6 A Feedback-Driven Computer Program for Outpatient Training; 7 Computer Workbooks in Psychotherapy with Psychiatric Patients
8 Marital Adjustment and Programmed Distance Writing with Seminarian Couples9 Workbooks and Psychotherapy with Incarcerated Felons Research in Progress; 10 Teaching Psychotherapy Through Workbooks; 11 Some Uses of Writing in Clinical Supervision; 12 Distance Writing and Computer-Assisted Interventions in the Delivery of Mental Health Services; Index; About the Editor and Contributors
Summary An introduction to the "writing cure" that represents an evolutionary, if not a paradigmatic shift in how mental health services will be delivered in the 21st century. It demonstrates how to use structured interviews before using writing and computer-assisted interventions at a distance
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Subject Written communication -- Therapeutic use
Psychotherapy -- Computer-assisted instruction
Psychotherapy -- Computer-assisted instruction
Written communication -- Therapeutic use
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780313003158
0313003157