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Re: Distance therapy with a pre-teen boy in a remote location

From: jerry johnson
Date: 10/21/01
Time: 8:48:38 PM
Remote Name: 64.12.103.168

Comments

Hi Gunars: As you know I think email can be very powerful. My question is, why a three week therapy? A skilled clinician can understand the needs of a person after one meeting. The rest of the treatment is for the child and his caregivers to buy into the program. Email can be far reaching and need not only be for the child. It can include teachers and others of importance. Maybe we overestimate the importance of "intensive" symptomatic modification to the exclusion of fluency enhancement and what is right about the kid. I do believe that personal contact is always beneficial, but in some cases maybe it is not possible, especially for three weeks. Email does tax the competence of the clinician and time is also a factor, but if it is all that is possible it is better to give it a try.


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