For articles about online therapy go here. For information about where to get immediate online support keep reading.
Online Support
If you are in need of immediate help or are feeling suicidal, the following sites will help you free of charge:
The Samaritans offer free confidential email, snail mail, and phone support to anyone in crisis, or who is feeling suicidal. If you need immediate help, this is the place to turn to. You are guaranteed absolute confidentiality and you will not be judged.
Suicide Crisis Centre - When No Hope Is In Sight. For an extensive listing of suicide call centres across the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, and other countries.
Befrienders Worldwide offer information about free crisis hotlines, email services, and other international resources for anyone in crisis or feeling suicidal.
If Are Thinking About Suicide: Read This First. An excellent page to read if you are feeling suicidal.
Information About Online Counseling
Online Therapy
Myths and Realities of Online Clinical Work
An article by the Third Clinical Case Study Group of the International Society for Mental Health Online
...Through this paper, we hope to illuminate the potential for online clinical work, and to share our evolving understanding of what is truly possible, despite the prevalent myths and realities which shape our thinking about online "therapy" and the nature of Internet-facilitated communication and behavior...
Dr. Michael Fenichel's Current Topics In Psychology is a wonderful resource for all kinds of psychological issues including current research, thinking, and presentations about online therapy. His own articles, for example, The Here and Now of Cyberspace, and Online Psychotherapy: Technical Difficulties, Formulations, and Processes, are particularly good articles about online communication and therapy.
The Psychology of Cyberspace is Dr. John Suler's very insightful online book about the psychology of cyberspace - a must read. For those interested in reading about psychotherapy online see his articles Psychotherapy and Clinical Work in Cyberspace, and A 5-Dimension Model of Online and Computer-mediated Psychotherapy. An index for all of his online articles and pages can be found here.
Dr. Azy Barak has compiled an extensive list of references about the internet and mental health. See also his online article Psychological Applications on the Internet:
A Discipline on the Threshold of a New Millennium.
Storm A. King has written a number of informative articles about mental health issues
online and online therapy.
CyberPsychology and Behavior can be subscribed to online. Some of the issues are available for free online.
Best Practices in e-Therapy is a series of informative articles about e-therapy written by Dr. John Grohol of Psych Central.
Catalyst Magazine is a good resource for articles about e-therapy and cyber addictions. For articles about online therapy go here
The International Society For Mental Health Online (ISMHO) has written Suggested Principles for the provision of online mental health services.
The Clinical Case Study Group of ISMHO has written some insightful observations about online clinical work in their paper, "Hypotheses about Online Psychotherapy and Clinical Work".
Metanoia - The ABC's of Internet Therapy provides lots of practical information - oriented to potential clients or consumers - by consumer advocate Martha Ainsworth about online counseling including what it is, how it works, and who it can help.
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