Lessons in Teletherapy

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Lessons in Teletherapy provides composite case studies and a treatment framework for clinicians exploring virtual therapy with clients. Louis Propp, a seasoned clinical psychologist specializing in child, adolescent, and family therapy, draws from his experience rapidly transitioning to telehealth during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. These stories mirror the real patient and provider challenges and progression, in monthly segments, addressing such issues as family domestic violence, behavioral issues, neurodivergence, substance abuse, social discrimination, grief, and psychopathology. Using a cognitive behavioral therapy-based treatment interventiondeveloped from ideas common to both in-person and virtual therapyDr. Propp demonstrates and explains how this framework may be applied to each clients unique situation.

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An experienced psychotherapists reflections on the changes to his therapy practice, and to his personal life, wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the use of engaging case examples, Louis Propp is able to clearly communicate the process involved in adapting traditional therapy techniques into a telehealth model. The authors discussion of the personal impact of the pandemic on his own life and work adds another important dimension. Authentic, accessible, and timely. Its excellent. -- Helene Presskreischer, PsyD
This text is an excellent guide to students and seasoned professionals on the emotional challenges of having practice during the pandemic as well as practical tools to weather through it all. -- Tina Marie Glover, University of the Cumberlands
This book has a combined focus of a psychologist's personal reflections throughout the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and how a clinician can adapt in person interventions to virtual interventions with clients, particularly when working with children. This would be appropriate additional reading for a masters- or doctoral-level class that is inclusive of teletherapy in the curriculum. -- Adrianne Trogden, University of the Cumberlands
In Lessons in Teletherapy, Dr. Propp takes the reader into real-time therapeutic dialogue with a diversity of patients varying in age, gender, and problems during a year of COVID-19. By matching the seven conceptual principles to the therapeutic conversation, the reader will understand how to approach each patient with both a conceptual framework and a thoughtful treatment strategy. Dr. Propp shows how these seven principles organize and influence the treatment, whether the patient is in the office or online. This book presents an in-depth analysis of treatment that is not explored in traditional texts. -- Ben Presskreischer, PsyD, ABPP

Author Bio

Louis Propp, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist who has been in private practice for nearly forty years. He conducts weekly online supervision for home-based workers and maintains a small teletherapy practice in Maine. He has also consulted for almost thirty-five years for a family resource center in Vermont. He has previously taught different graduate-level psychology courses in child psychology at Antioch University New England. He is a member of the Maine, Vermont, and American Psychological Associations, as well as the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards. Dr. Propp continues to see patients remotely in Vermont and Maine. He is also the author of Notes from a Child Psychologist.