Handbook of Online Systemic Therapy, Supervision, and Training : Practice and Research

This handbook examines digital systemic psychotherapy and counseling for individuals, couples, families, and groups. It addresses online supervision for professionals working in mental health services as well as online training in systemic family and couple therapy. The handbook explores the dramatic changes in the use of digital technology since the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides a theoretical perspective on the impact of digital technology on family life as well as therapeutic work. The volume offers state-of-the-art practical recommendations to trainees, therapists, supervisors, and trainers for implementing online systemic practices.

Key areas of coverage include:

• Therapeutic alliance in online systemic therapy.
• Online systemic therapy with individuals presenting psychological difficulties as well as families of adolescents with mental health issues.
• Online couples therapy.
• Online systemic group therapy with oncology patients.
• Online multifamily group therapy with youths facing psychotic symptoms.
• Online systemic supervision with individuals and teams.
• Online training in systemic couple and family therapy.
• Methods and guidelines for online systemic practices.

The Handbook of Online Systemic Therapy, Supervision, and Training is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in clinical psychology, family studies, psychotherapy, social work, public health, and all interrelated disciplines.

Maria Borcsa, Ph.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen (UASN), Germany, licensed psychological psychotherapist (CBT), family therapist, trainer and supervisor, author and (co-)editor of numerous scientific articles and books in German, English, French, Greek, Italian, and Spanish. She is founding member of the Institute of Social Medicine, Health Care Research and Rehabilitation Sciences at UASN, member of the Editorial Board of the journals, Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology and  Journal of Marital and Family Therapy , international associate editor of Journal of Family Therapy, advisory editor of Family Process, associate editor of Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy, and founding editor of the EFTA Family Therapy Book Series (with P. Stratton). She has been board member of the German Association for Systemic Research, Therapy, Supervision and Counseling (SG) (2005-2011); board member of the European Family Therapy Association (EFTA) (2007-2016), Chair of the Chamber of National Family Therapy Organizations of EFTA (2010-2013), and President of EFTA (2013-2016). In 2019, she received an award from the European Family Therapy Association for her excellence in the research field of family therapy and systemic practice.

Valeria Pomini, Ph.D., is licensed Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist. She lives and works in Greece, where she co-founded the Family Therapy Unit (1988) at the First Department of Psychiatry, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she worked till her retirement in 2023. She is also the co-founder and co-director of the Training Course in Systemic Family and Couple Therapy, established in 1992 at the University Mental Health, Neurosciences and Medical Precision Research Institute “Costas Stefanis” (UMHRI) in Athens. She has extensive teaching experience in Greece and Italy at academic master programs of education as well as at institutes providing training in systemic family and couple psychotherapy. She has also a wide experience as supervisor of mental health teams in Greece during the last thirty years. She is author, co-author, and (co-)editor of numerous scientific articles and books in Greek, English, and Italian. She is member of the editorial committee of the journal Systemic Therapy & Psychotherapy and the Journal of Psychosocial Systems. She is founder member, board member and past-president (2004-2010) of the Hellenic Systemic Thinking and Family Therapy Association – HESTAFTA, past member of the board of the Hellenic Federation of Systemic and Family Therapy Associations ETHOS, member of the Societa’ Italiana di Psicologia e Psicoterapia Relazionale SIPPR, and co-chair of the Psychotherapy Committee of the Hellenic Psychological Association ELPSE.