Working Alliance in Online Therapy as Compared to Face-to-Face Therapy: Preliminary Results

By Jonathan E. Cook, Carol Doyle. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2002

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Defining Internet-Supported Therapeutic Interventions (2009, background): “Cook and Doyle [63] and King, Bambling, Reid, and Thomas [64] demonstrated that therapeutic alliance is similar, or even higher, in offline and online counseling.”
A Comprehensive Review and a Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Internet-Based Psychotherapeutic Interventions (2008, background): “Cook and Doyle ( 2002 ), for example, found that clients of e-mail- or chat-based therapy rated therapeutic working alliance similar and even superior to that of face-to-face therapy.”
Demystifying Men's Emotional Behavior: New Directions and Implications for Counseling and Research (2005, background): “It is possible that the perceived anonymity of online counseling would reduce some men’s fears of negative self-appraisal, which in turn may encourage disinhibition during therapy ( Cook & Doyle, 2002 ).”
An investigation of session impact and alliance in internet based psychotherapy: Preliminary results (2006, background): “Cook and Doyle ( 2002 ) compared Working Alliance Inventory (WAI) scores after the third session between 15 predominantly female therapy consumers mainly using e-mail and a representative archival sample of 25 traditional face-to-face therapy clients.”
Computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review (2010, background): “A number of authors have found that a working alliance with a therapist can be established effectively online (Cook and Doyle 2002; Knaevelsrud and Maercker 2006).”
The working alliance in online therapy with young people: preliminary findings (2009, background): “…therefore supports the positive findings of earlier work examining D ow nl oa de d by [ B A C P ] at 1 0: 59 0 3 Fe br ua ry 2 01 3 the text-based working alliance with both adult populations (e.g. Cook & Doyle, 2002; Prado & Meyer, 2004; Reynolds et al., 2006) and adolescents (King et al., 2006b).”
Online Counseling (2005, methodology): “Preliminary research has suggested that these important common factors can be achieved in online counseling (Cook & Doyle, 2002; Day & Schneider, 2002), but future research efforts are needed to continue studying the setting of online counseling, such as working with clients without the assistance…”