Psychotherapy, professional relationships, and ethical considerations in the myspace generation.

Lehavot, Keren; Barnett, Jeffrey E.; Powers, David V.

doi:10.1037/a0018709

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“…This is a similar number to findings by Lehavot et al (2010), who reported 27% of graduate students had "Googled" clients. Interestingly, a recent study by DiLillo and Gale (2011) reported that almost their entire satnple of graduate students (97.8%) reported searching for at least one client's information in the past year.…”

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Who’s Googled whom? Trainees’ Internet and online social networking experiences, behaviors, and attitudes with clients and supervisors.

Asay

Lal

2014

Training and Education in Professional Psychology

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The ubiquity of the Internet and online social networking creates rapidly developing opportunities and challenges for psychologists and trainees in the domains of relationships, privacy, and connection. As trainees increasingly are natives of an Internet culture, questions arise about the ways in which developing psychologists may view Internet issues and the guidance they receive from professional psychologists for whom the Internet is a significant cultural shift. A national survey of graduate students (n = 407) assessed student Internet behaviors (e.g., "Googling" clients, online social networking), training about online issues, attitudes toward online social networking and client or supervisor contact via these networks, and fears and comfort about making decisions regarding these networks. The survey also assessed what students reported they would do and what they would think if clients and supervisors contacted them via social networks. Results indicate that most trainees have changed and monitored their online presence since beginning graduate school. A quarter of respondents had "Googled" clients, and almost half had "Googled" supervisors. A small number indicated that both clients and supervisors had reported "Googling" the trainee. Students expressed concerns about making ethical decisions about online social networks. Half reported discussing Internet issues in their graduate training programs, whereas a quarter indicated they had discussed Internet issues at their training sites. Implications for training are discussed, with recommendations of program disclosure of Internet policies to students, discussion of Internet issues before trainee clinical work, role plays of ethical issues, and supervisor-initiated discussions of Internet issues.The social shifts occurring as a result of the rise of the Internet have naturally attracted much popular and scholarly attention. The implications for personal and professional lives, for what it means to be social, relational beings and how and what people both know and know about each other are substantial. A New York Times article (Rosen, 2010) proclaimed that the Internet means "the end of forgetting." Traumas, triumphs, missteps, and mundane moments no longer exist merely in personal pasts; rather, they may exist for all to see, for all time. In a world in which people can now be-and are expected to be-constantly connected, it may be increasingly difficult to carve out what is uniquely personal. Webb

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“…A few empirical studies have investigated both graduate students' and psychologists' online experience and attitudes (DiLillo & Gale, 2011;Lehavot et al, 2010;Tunick, Mednick & Conroy, 2011). In general, results indicated that psychologists and trainees are experiencing these online interactions with some regularity.…”

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Who’s Googled whom? Trainees’ Internet and online social networking experiences, behaviors, and attitudes with clients and supervisors.

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Lal

2014

Training and Education in Professional Psychology

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“…Fox (2009) found that 61% of American adults report looking online for health information, and Lehavot et al (2010) found that 7% of student psychotherapists reported that a client disclosed that he or she obtained online information about them.…”

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Social networking ethics: Developing best practices for the new small world.

Lannin

Scott

2013

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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Emerging trends online, and especially in social network sites, may be creating an environment for psychologists where transparency is increasingly unavoidable. Thus, most psychological practitioners may now have to engage in small world ethics-ethical acuity that requires an application of ethical principles to the increasingly interconnected and transparent world that is burgeoning from online culture. Fortunately, rural psychology has already provided a helpful roadmap for how to demonstrate flexibility and prudence when applying ethical principles in cultures with great transparency. Therefore, professional psychologists and psychologists in training may need to draw upon this wisdom when conceptualizing best online practices for the field that relate to social networking and personal online activity. To remain relevant, psychotherapy must adapt to the new digital culture but maintain its identity as a profession guided by its historical values and ethical principles.

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“…), among others (Bamett & Scheetz, 2003;Koocher & Keith-Spiegel, 1998;Lehavot, Bamett, & Powers, 2010).…”

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Critical incidents in the marriage of psychology and technology: A discussion of potential ethical issues in practice, education, and policy.

Allen

Roberts

2011

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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We identified critical incidents in psychologists' use of technology in their service provision with clients. Study coordinators sent messages out to various listservs requesting that practicing psychologists respond to an online survey for their reports of how the integration of certain technology advances (e.g., e-mail, electronic health records, social-networking websites, etc.) may have compromised client privacy or confidentiality. Twenty-eight participants responded to the survey and noted a variety of concems, including themes Of (a) unauthorized access to electronic client records, (b) inappropriate dissemination of client information via technology, and (c) unique client concems associated with social-networking websites (e.g.. Twitter, Facebook, etc.). We discuss ramifications and strategies related to these ethical concems in education, practice, and ethical standards and principles.

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Psychotherapy, professional relationships, and ethical considerations in the myspace generation.

Cited by 86 publications

References 16 publications

Who’s Googled whom? Trainees’ Internet and online social networking experiences, behaviors, and attitudes with clients and supervisors.

Who’s Googled whom? Trainees’ Internet and online social networking experiences, behaviors, and attitudes with clients and supervisors.

Social networking ethics: Developing best practices for the new small world.

Critical incidents in the marriage of psychology and technology: A discussion of potential ethical issues in practice, education, and policy.

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