A Preliminary Comparison Study of Online and Face-to-Face Counseling: Client Perceptions of Three Factors

Journal of Technology in Human Services

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-31

  Holmes, Courtney ^a   Foster, Victoria ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

online counseling; social presence; therapeutic relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860377500     PISSN: 15228835     EISSN: 15228991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15228835.2012.662848     Document Type: Article

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