网络心理咨询的疗效与展望

Therapeutic Potentials and Outlook of Online Counseling

心理学家预测，通过互联网开展的心理咨询，在未来的10年里将成为第二大快速增长的服务领域。该文综述了近期国外有关网络心理咨询的概念和种类，有关网络心理咨询疗效的实证研究以及确保网络心理咨询疗效所采取的措施等。在此基础上作者指出网络心理咨询研究中存在的问题，相信随着这些问题的改进，网络心理咨询必将迈向规范、标准和科学的轨道。

Psychologist predicted in 2002 that online counseling would be the second fastest increasing service area in the next ten years. In this article the authors summarized foreign various definitions and different models of online counseling， introduced some empirically based research on outcome of online counseling and suggestions for how to standardize online counseling services. In the meantime the authors pointed out the problems of online counseling research. They believed that online counseling would be more normalized， more standardized and more scientific with improving on these problems.