2. 外语
  3. Online Therapy Isn’t Shrinking Online therapy is dangerous, critics say. Quacks could set up shop and cheat customers. Disco

Online Therapy Isn’t Shrinking Online therapy is dangerous, critics say. Quacks could set up shop and cheat customers. Disco

admin2013-07-11  62
问题                         Online Therapy Isn’t Shrinking
    Online therapy is dangerous, critics say. Quacks could set up shop and cheat customers. Discontents who are looking for a quick fix could score drugs with a simple mouseclick. The entire mental health industry may degenerate into a mess.
    At a Capitol Hill news conference last week, a coalition of medical practitioners and patient advocates released a set of guidelines to keep that from happening before the government gets a chance to step in and do it for them. But critics say those standards might not be enough, and warn that mixing professional counseling with the Internet is a potentially risky situation that the government is not likely to ignore.
    The guidelines—the eHealth Code of Ethics—aren’t revolutionary. They’re voluntary rules drawn up by the Internet Healthcare Coalition that ask the players in this field (and in the electronic health field in general) to stay the course and follow a set of standards that some sites say they were already following.
    Gunny Cho, CEO of the online therapy site Here2listen, com, said his company was already adhering to the guidelines suggested in the new code. "We were taking the highest of the high moral ground," he said. Cho said most of the people who use Stanford University backed Here2listen’s fee-based, real-time chat service are looking for help with personal relationships and life’s stresses . None of them will be hooked up with drugs, he said, because Here2listen’s shrinks are there to listen, not prescribe.
    Psychology-ethics expert Thomas Nagy is guarded about how his field is embracing the Internet as a clinical medium. The assistant clinical professor at Stanford Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, who maintains a private practice as a psychologist in Palo Alto, says online therapy is filled with risks. "There’s no training or research in Internet therapy, and there’s no definition of what it is," he said. He said face-terrace counseling, or at least telephonic therapy, is always superior to online therapy. " With words on a screen you have such a narrow bandwidth of emotional overtones," he said. " I would always argue for telephone consultation instead of email therapy. I think there’s so much more information available, you can at least tell something about (a patient’s) emotional tone."
    Glenn Marron, a psychologist who maintains a private practice in New York and once served as consultant to the government, agreed that the industry is moving quicker than it should. "I think there’s no question that ultimately this indeed is going to be one of the main formats for mental health," she said. "The technology is far more advanced than the infrastructure and guidelines we have."
The word "shrinks" (line 11, Para. 4) most probably refers to______.
选项 A、psychiatrists
B、patients
C、customers
D、critics
答案A
解析 本题考查根据上下文推测词义。第四段主要阐述了一位在线治疗网站的负责人维护该网站的观点。他指出在线治疗方式不会导致病人滥用药物，因为shrinks的作用是倾听，而不是开药，因此可推知shrinks指的应该是网站的医生，[A]正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/h9RYFFFM
0

专业英语八级

相关试题推荐
随机试题
最新回复(0)