Resources for Online Groups

Confidentiality and practice guidelines

Here is some recent guidance from the British Psychoanalytic Council, UK Council for Psychotherapy, and British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy about conducting therapy online.

• UKCP — information about coronavirus (COVID-19)
• BACP — working online supplementary guidance (PDF)
• IPA — recommendations for the use of videoconferencing (PDF)

Webinar

Many of us are finding ourselves working in a new and unfamiliar setting, with online groups. Presented by Haim Weinberg PhD, who has a wealth of experience working in this medium and has written extensively about it, this webinar provides an introduction to many of the issues which we will face, moving from circle to screen.

• Conducting group therapy online — Group Analytic Society

Technology

Zoom has some helpful information too about how to use the technology well:

• Zoom video tutorials

Reading

More generally we have found some of the following books useful in thinking through the implications of online work:

• Weinberg & Rolnick (2019) "Theory and practice of online therapy: Internet-delivered interventions for individuals, groups, families, and organizations". Routledge.
• Jill Scharff's "Psychoanalysis online" series, also by Routledge — view the series.