Dami Charf speaking calmly and gesturing wide with his hands. “Who did in Childhood traumatic experience, noted that at his reactions in adulthood,” she says in one of her YouTube Videos. “For example, by fears of loss or the feeling of constantly to do something, to be loved.”
Charf, 55, graying curly hair, talks about patterns of behavior. She is a certified alternative practitioner for psychotherapy and has specialized in trauma healing. In your Online self-help course, you explained that already in the first three years of life determines how we react to events and people.
Charf is one of a number of providers for Online therapy. You search on Google for the Offers, will it quickly cluttered: Selfapy, Minddoc or Mentavio is the name of the Websites, which promise assistance in psychological emergencies.
“For those seeking help, it is often difficult, the quality of such offers to assess,” says the Website of the Association “Pro psychotherapy”. It is important to pay attention to the qualifications of the provider: whether the Internet program is used by a psychotherapist or a specialist in the area of psychotherapy, or accompanied.
- Here you will find a check list of the Federal chamber of psychotherapists and experts of the German society for psychiatry and psychotherapy).
Shaking hands is online not possible
It applies the checklist to the offer of Dami Charf, it does not fulfil every single point. Although it specifies in detail your education, does your course content transparent, and also the satisfaction of users is in the comments on your page. But your program is no way to check individually whether the treatment is successful, There is always provided a Feedback for the user, he must self-assess whether the program brings something to him.
“In the course of the course, you will notice that you start at things differently, see differently, perceive and at some point, to behave differently,” promises Charf and smiles encouragingly at the camera. “In the Moment, your environment will behave differently.” By means of your good nature, you give your viewers the feeling to have as a compassionate Person, who knows what she’s talking about – if you can be the judge of that, when you see a man only on the screen.
However, you can edit with an online course really deep-seated experiences, or needs in such a sensitive subject, a sensitive interlocutor who is physically present? There must be an interaction between the Patient and the therapist, it does not need specific answers to individual questions?
“Online offerings are an effective alternative access to therapeutic measures,” said Heinz Thiery, managing Director of the German Association for online counselling (DGOB). “Especially people who are not reached through Face-to-Face offerings.” Workers, for instance, which, because of their working hours, difficult to have a free therapy place. Young people who do not feel adults taken seriously. The deaf or people living in rural regions and no therapists on the ground. But also people who are ashamed because of their experiences and first of all, not necessarily to talk about it to – for example, victims of sexual abuse. Also to act as a Bridge for the waiting time until the therapy course the offers can be used
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Online counseling offers an alternative Setting: “It makes for a lot of a difference, whether you are at home relaxing in front of the Computer or in a foreign environment, a foreign Person without reservation to open it,” says Thiery. In the behavior therapy, which comes about also in the case of traumas to use, can be observed by competent online offers great success: “patients will be offered a suitable learning program for you in everyday practice,” says Thiery. This could be taught via Video Tutorial.
Also Charf has some of their explanatory videos uploaded to YouTube, around 15,000 people have subscribed to your channel. The complete self-help courses you can buy on your Website. Between 57 and 270 Euro for the tutorial costs. Online therapies are in Germany, although no regular services, some health insurances cover the cost.
Charf also sees the limits of your online courses: Although you can explain how the Psyche functioning, like certain conditioning set to expire and where they come from. “When I sit with a Person in a room, I can include but physical reactions.” It’ll trigger in every man a certain feeling, to sit over or a shake of the Hand.
Better online than no advice?
Personal contact – at least in the diagnosis and educating the patient is essential, stated in an opinion of the Federal chamber of psychotherapists (BPTK) for the digitalization in psychotherapy. “During the treatment, the monitoring of Therapy by psychotherapists or Physicians shall be ensured.” Important evidence of the effectiveness is also. Because therapeutic exercise, or too little work, it could reinforce in the patient the impression that they can not against their depressed mood to arrive. “He delivered experienced more of his disease, helpless,” – said in the opinion.
“We plead for an Integration of digital programs in psychotherapy”, also said a spokesman for the BPTK. Digital services could complement psychotherapy, but not to replace it. “We also demand that digital treatment programs must prove their effectiveness before they are used.”
Thiery of the DGOB looks dubious therapies also as dangerous. “By a unfachliches offer the disease can be worse in fact, rather”, he says. It is important that the therapists, who are behind the online courses are for patients to be reachable by Chat or E-Mail.
In General, online counseling is better than no advice. The Association wanted to put together a Register with a certified Offered. The professional Association of German psychologists has already been such a review.