The Practice of Marriage and Family Counseling in Cyberspace

Abstract

This article reviews the current practice of using the Internet to provide marriage and family counseling services. A history of how the Internet has developed into a medium that can be used for the provision of marriage and family counseling services will be discussed. Ethical guidelines developed by other associations have direct implication in how marriage and family therapists can ethically use this new technology. Future trends in cybercounseling include issues that marriage and family counselors will have to resolve in the coming years.