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Explorations in Mental Health E-ATTACHMENT AND ONLINE COMMUNICATION THE CHANGING CONTEXT OF THE CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENT Katarzyna Sitnik-Warchulska, Bernadetta Izydorczyk, and Zbigniew Wajda E-attachment and Online Communication This book examines the use of modern technologies in clinical psychological practice. It considers how we define attachment in an age where changes in technology and the COVID-19 pandemic have increased the prevalence of online contact in the process of diagnosis and psychological treatment. Based on an attachment paradigm that is relatively unexplored, the book outlines how modern online contact influences mental health and development, along with the therapeutic relationship between client and professional. It discusses people’s relationships with new technologies, how relationships can be established using these technologies, and how these technologies affect professional relationships between psychologists and their clients, which they define as e-attachment. In the context of new technologies, the book draws on neurobiology and clinical psychology to consider mental health, social functioning, and emotional regulation. Presenting both theory and examples from case studies, this cutting-edge book will be of great interest to researchers, academics, and post-graduate students in the fields of clinical psychology, psychotherapy, and mental health. Those also carrying out research into digital and online learning within the field of mental health will also benefit from this text. Katarzyna Sitnik-Warchulska is Clinical Psychologist, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Applied Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Poland. Bernadetta Izydorczyk is Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Supervisor of Psychotherapy, and Associate Professor at the Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Poland. Zbigniew Wajda is Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Applied Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Poland. Explorations in Mental Health Applications of a Psychospiritual Model in the Helping Professions Principles of InnerView Guidance Cedric Speyer and John Yaphe Effective Group Therapies for Young Adults Affected by Cancer Using Support Groups in Clinical Settings in the United States Sarah F. 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The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record has been requested for this book ISBN: 978-1-032-11686-0 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-11687-7 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-22104-3 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003221043 Typeset in Bembo by MPS Limited, Dehradun We would like to thank our lovedones for presence and inspiration The translation and open access license fee of the publication were funded by the Priority Research Area Society of the Future under the program “Excellence Initiative – Research University” at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Contents Introduction 1 1 Human development changes in the modern world 4 2 Contemporary forms of establishing attachment 22 3 Attachment, relationships and new technologies from a neuroscience perspective 38 4 Attachment based on new technologies and mental health 64 5 Contemporary trends in psychological diagnosis and assessment (online psychological diagnosis and therapy) 84 6 Psychologist dilemmas and challenges in the face of new technologies: Reflections and case studies 112 7 Summing up 127 Index 129 Introduction At the end of the 20th century, a breakthrough took place that permanently changed human functioning. Ubiquitous technology has opened up new possibilities for communication and contact with people from all over the world. It also posed a man and his Self to a number of questions about the limits of his functioning and the nature of humanity. The moment of writing this book coincided with the time when generations brought up in hybrid reality enter adult life, building their identity both in the real and virtual world. These are the times when technology is also increasingly present in the process of diagnosis and treatment of patients. Internet applications, virtual reality (VR) glasses, robots with social functions are a reality that is already widely used in the process of helping and psychotherapy at the time of writing this book. The use of avatars or the presence of humanoid robots in the healing process is no longer an image known from Sci-Fi literature and it becomes an announcement of scientists about the near future. This process of entering the virtual world into the world of direct relationships was further strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the advances of technology has, in fact, become the norm around the world. At the same time, it is also the moment when mainly people whose lives experience a technological breakthrough in the course of their development write about the possibilities and consequences of combining real and virtual reality. After all, it is a time of discussion and asking open questions about whether and how to translate the bond and social touch to the virtual world, what consequences this has for shaping attachment, and consequently for symptoms of psychopathology, diagnosis and treatment with the use of technology embedded in the online world. This book is the effect of the authors’ reflection on the phenomenon, re- view of research and clinical observations regarding the use of modern tech- nologies in clinical psychological practice, with particular emphasis on attachment. The authors focus on explaining how modern online contact may have an influence on bonds, in consequence, on mental health and devel- opment, symptoms progress and the therapeutic diagnostic relationship be- tween the client and the professional. DOI: 10.4324/9781003221043-1
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