Psychological Counseling over the Internet: Data from an Institutional experience

Abstract

The characteristics and advantages psychological counselling over the Internet are presented and compared to those of a face-to-face psychological intervention. The possible types of on-line counselling and research carried out up to the moment are also described. The characteristics of the experience of on-line counselling carried out in the Service of Psychological Attention of the UMA are summarised. The particular features of this experience and the data about consultations, users, types of psychological problems and forms of counselling for the last year are presented.