E-Mail in der Psychotherapie - ein Nachbehandlungsmodell via Electronic Mail für die stationäre Psychotherapie

Abstract

We introduce an aftercare program for psychotherapy inpatients, which is based on regular communication via E-mail. The organizational and operational structure of the program are described within the context of computer mediated communication. First results on utilization and acceptance are reported. In comparison to patients who did not participate in either aftercare program of the clinic, the E-mail participants are younger and higher educated. Inpatient treatment of the participants was three days shorter in duration than that of non participants. Both groups were similar with regard to symptom distress at discharge from hospital. A low dropout rate of 8%, the high activity and satisfaction emphasize the positive acceptance of the program. Therapists' E-mail activity turned out to be important for the participants. Neither age, internet experience or symptom related variables nor the own E-mail activity were associated with participants' evaluation of the new service. Based on these first positive experiences the perspectives of using E-mail in psychotherapy will be discussed.

A Transdiagnostic Internet-Based Maintenance Treatment Enhances the Stability of Outcome after Inpatient Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial

“…These include: (a) greater potential for the integration of acquired skills in daily life due to an emphasis on the patient's active role in self-help treatment, (b) elimination of waiting periods between acute and continuation treatment, (c) access to the programs on a 24/7 basis, and (d) lower costs compared to face-to-face treatments. Several studies have shown promising results with delivering continuation phase treatments over the Internet [16,17,18,19,20,21]. However, to our knowledge, all published studies evaluating the use of this approach to maintain inpatient treatment gains [16,17,20] used only nonrandomized designs.…”

Psychologie in der medizinischen Rehabilitation

“…Die Akzeptanz E-Mail-basierter Nachsorge konnte durch Wolf et al (2006) belegt werden. Über 80 Prozent der Teilnehmer zeigte sich ziemlich oder sehr zufrieden mit der E-Mail-Brücke.…”

SMS-Nachsorge: Sektorenübergreifende Versorgung für Patientinnen mit Bulimia nervosa

“…Kordy et al, 2006;Wolf et al, 2006;Golkaramnay et al, 2007Golkaramnay et al, , 2009Bauer et al, 2011aBauer et al, , 2012Fichter et al, 2012;Ebert et al, 2013]. Die von der Forschungsstelle für Psychotherapie entwickelten Programme «Chat-, E-Mail-und SMS-Brücke» verstehen sich als therapeutische Begleitung beim Übergang von der Klinik in den Alltag-mit oder ohne ambulante Psychotherapie [Golkaramnay et al, 2003].…”