Exploring the Question: "Does Empathy Work in the Same Way in Online and In-Person Therapeutic Settings?"

ABSTRACT: Providing remote psychotherapy using technology is a growing practice, especially since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even if in numerous studies video conferencing psychotherapy (VCP) was found to be clinically effective, some doubts continue to exist about how the psychotherapeutic alliance works in the online setting, and the characteristics of the empathic process are still poorly understood. This is an exploratory study aimed at analyzing the degree of empathy between the psychotherapist and client pair, and the degree of support perceived by the client who shall be referred to as the patient interchangeably in this study, comparing the sessions in person with those online, during the current pandemic, in order to discriminate the impact of empathy in the digital setting. The

SUBMITTER: Sperandeo R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8490728 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature