Can You Feel My Heart (Via Your Camera and Sensors)? The Role of the Body, Its Absence, and Its Measurement in Online Video Psychotherapy

In their book Theory and Practice of Online Therapy, Weinberg and Rolnick (2019) expand the borders of online therapy to include family therapy, group therapy, and organizational consultation. Children seek closeness with a parent who can protect and take care of them, resulting in the assumption th...

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Published inBiofeedback (Wheat Ridge, Colo.) Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 20 - 23
Main Authors Rolnick, Arnon, Ehrenreich, Yossi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Lawrence Allen Press Inc 01.04.2020
Subjects
Algorithms
Anxiety disorders
Biofeedback
Blood
Cameras
Closeness
Family therapy
Group therapy
Heart rate
Internet
Measurement
Neurosciences
Physiological psychology
Physiology
Professional practice
Psychotherapy
Respiration
Self report
Sensors
Skin
Therapists
Therapy
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Summary:In their book Theory and Practice of Online Therapy, Weinberg and Rolnick (2019) expand the borders of online therapy to include family therapy, group therapy, and organizational consultation. Children seek closeness with a parent who can protect and take care of them, resulting in the assumption that the therapist should also be close, in order to help the patient repair attachment ruptures. Clark and Beck (2010), in their seminal work about anxiety disorders, state that “the practitioner will be relying on clients' self-report of their physiological responses since use of psychophysiological laboratory-based or ambulatory equipment for monitoring purposes is rarely feasible in the clinical setting” (p. 144). The following represents a claim made by Philips: Whenever the heart beats, the skin color changes because of the extra blood running through the vessels.
ISSN:1081-5937
2158-348X
DOI:10.5298/1081-5937-48.1.1