A Note from the Managing Editors… Welcome, or welcome back, to TILT – Therapeutic Innovations in Light of Technology.
kate anthony
& deeanna merz nagel with the
online therapy institute in second life
This issue, we have two exciting new members of our regular contributor team! A huge welcome to Samantha Murphy who takes over our New Innovation column, and also to Christine Korol who is our new Resident Cartoonist, with her unique take on stress and anxiety, particularly in relation to how technology affects our day-to-day lives.
Our features in this issue include a case-study from Cedric Speyer and Eusebia da Silva considering the importance of composure and process when formulating client emails, with actual case material to illustrate their points. To compliment their article on working with email, we have a great simple and illustrative feature from Kasia Zukowska of Ecrypt, one of our Verified organisations, on encryption. Kasia demystifies encryption, particularly how “every time you connect to a WiFi network and are required to enter a password encryption is at play; every time you access a site that is prefaced with “https” encryption is utilized; and every time you try to back up a CD but can’t it’s because it is encrypted.” She shows us how encryption is nothing to be scared of! The results of the survey Steven Starks has been working on and that was publicised in the last issue of TILT are in! 211 respondents gave us a snapshot of who online practitioners are and how they work, with participants from all over the world. We hope this small informal survey gives everyone a chance to consider their own journey to being an online practitioner, and encourages you to conduct your own research and take part in the important process of discovering as much as we can about our field. Finally, Dave Haniff tells us of his work on a new Serious Game for Depression. You can take part in Dave’s own research (see Research Call) in providing feedback to the game, which aims to show computer games as being an interactive fun and less formal way of learning new material. Our aim continues, issue by issue, to keep you up-to-date with developments in innovations in service delivery; publish interesting articles; provide resources; and feature members and friends of the Online Therapy Institute and the Online Coach Institute. All our other regular columnists are here, with useful and entertaining comment on coaching; research; legalities; film culture; and CyberSupervision. There’s a new Ethical Dilemma for you to consider and to post responses at our social network forums for publication in the fourth issue of Volume 2 (Issue 10). Our featured “Day in Life” therapist and coach are Sana Quijada and Jackie Walker respectively – we hope you find it as interesting to hear about their work as we do. We hope you enjoy this issue, whatever professional world you inhabit J
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