Abstract
Although there are a number of highly efficacious in-person treatments designed to ameliorate relationship distress, only a small proportion of distressed couples seek out in-person treatment. Recently developed internet-based interventions based on these in-person treatments are a promising way to circumvent common barriers to in-person treatment and give more distressed couples access to these efficacious interventions. The overarching aims of this review are to provide couple and family therapists with a broad overview of the available internet-based interventions and provide suggestions about how these interventions might be utilized before, during, or after in-person treatment. The majority of the review centres on internet-based interventions for distressed couples and covers four distinct types of resources: relationship advice websites; assessment/feedback interventions; enrichment interventions for satisfied couples; and interventions targeting at-risk or distressed couples. Included is a case study of one couple's journey through a newly developed intervention targeting at-risk couples, OurRelationship.com. Internet-based interventions targeting individual psychopathology (e.g. anxiety and depression) are also reviewed. These interventions would be particularly useful as an adjunctive resource for in-person couple or family therapy when referrals for a concurrent in-person individual therapist are not feasible (because of time, financial, or geographic constraints). We close with three appendices: two appendices with information on currently available internet-based interventions; and one appendix with recommendations on how to incorporate these resources into in-person therapy.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 414-430 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2014 |
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Keywords
- couple therapy
- dissemination
- internet-based interventions
- marital distress
- online
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Sociology and Political Science
- Psychology (miscellaneous)
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Incorporating internet-based interventions into couple therapy : Available resources and recommended uses. / Cicila, Larisa N.; Georgia, Emily J.; Doss, Brian.
In: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Vol. 35, No. 4, 01.12.2014, p. 414-430.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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