E-Mental Health and Counselor Training

Abstract

In this article we discuss the various ways that we train counselors to work with a perspective taking model for enhancing e-mental health. This model is used to promote ethical behaviors in the therapy room and with online counseling. Also discussed are our efforts to encourage any of the students we train in the online counseling and psychotherapy fields to incorporate social responsibility elements within any future practice that they will be involved in. Students’ training experiences and ‘use of self’ show how this model could be adopted by both domestic and international counselor training programs and used in any psychotherapy business. In partnership with local mental health professionals and social responsibility advocates, community and corporate leaders could benefit from the model to promote the well-being of workers and the community at large.