Unit 3.1: ICT as a bridge between clients and professionals
- The classical experience: personal meetings in a practice room
- Face-to-face scenarios require an adaption of the client
- Bridging of temporal and spatial limitations by means of ICT
- Reduction of organizational access barriers through ICT
- Which user groups are likely to benefit the most?
- Further good reasons for offering also online advice and intervention
- Why are advisors, counsellors and therapists sceptical about?
- Inhibitions of the client to direct, immediate contact with the advisor, counsellor or therapist
- Computer-mediated distance and threshold anxiety
