KBT online - kontra - KBT fysisk

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This essay was based on digital care and focuses on online care in psychological treatments. This work was limited to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and focused mainly on the therapists competence, perceived difficulties, and feelings during ongoing conversation, but also investigated preferences for common ailments in therapy. These concepts were compared between physical therapy sessions and online sessions into the research question. Data were collected by searching for those active in CBT treatment and resulted in 46 responses. These answers were then analyzed by Jamovi, and a Paired Sample T-test was used in order to interpret the data. The results show for instance that there is a significant difference when it comes to therapeutic alliance and therapeutic authenticity when the therapist perceives their competence, in favor of therapy in person. The same phenomenon is consistent with detecting emotional reactions as well as effectiveness in helping clients/patients. When it comes to perceived difficulties with therapy, the differences were small between in person and online. When it comes to in session feeling the therapist considered that online sessions have poorer conversation flow compared to in person. This paper recommends more training for online therapy and an improved attitude towards this form. further research should be done in order to see if improved therapeutic alliance (in online format) can decrease dropout from treatment.