TY  -  JOUR
AU  -  Cantone, Daniela
AU  -  Guerriera, Carmela
AU  -  Architravo, Marco
AU  -  Alfano, Yari Mirko
AU  -  Cioffi, Valeria
AU  -  Moretto, Enrico
AU  -  Mosca, Lucia Luciana
AU  -  Longobardi, Teresa
AU  -  Muzii, Benedetta
AU  -  Maldonato, Nelson Mauro
AU  -  Sperandeo, Raffaele
T1  -  A sample of Italian psychotherapists express their perception and opinions of online psychotherapy during the covid-19 pandemic
PY  -  2021
Y1  -  2021-07-01
DO  -  10.1708/3654.36347
JO  -  Rivista di Psichiatria
JA  -  Riv Psichiatr
VL  -  56
IS  -  4
SP  -  198
EP  -  204
PB  -  Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore
SN  -  2038-2502
Y2  -  2026/05/07
UR  -  http://dx.doi.org/10.1708/3654.36347
N2  -  SUMMARY. The covid-19 lockdown forced psychotherapists to use videoconferencing psychotherapy (VCP). There is little literature on the relationship between VCP and the theoretical orientation of the psychotherapist. The aim of our research work is to explore to what extent the Italian therapists used VCP and how they experienced the change in setting during lockdown. A sample of psychotherapists completed an on-line questionnaire including data about any previous experience of remote work, information on changes in setting during lockdown and their opinions on this experience. In the second phase, a statistical analysis of the data collected was performed with SPSS. The most represented theoretical orientations are psychoanalytic, Gestalt, systemic-relational and psychodynamic. Almost all the respondents had chosen to change the setting, opting for remote work via video calls, with no differences in terms of theoretical orientation and age group. Psychotherapeutic orientation seems to affect the type of difficulties encountered. The scientific literature on remote psychotherapy (VCP) so far does not correlate it with any specific theoretical-clinical model. Our research work offers some preliminary hypotheses about potential correlations between setting variations with the theoretical-clinical models.
ER  -