caa a22 4500 606211705 CHVBK 20210128101039.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10615-014-0495-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10615-014-0495-0 Reamer Frederic School of Social Work, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, USA aut Clinical Social Work in a Digital Environment: Ethical and Risk-Management Challenges [Elektronische Daten] [Frederic Reamer] Clinical social workers' use of digital and other technology to provide distance counseling services is proliferating. Increasing numbers of contemporary practitioners are using video counseling, email chat, social networking websites, text messaging, smartphone apps, avatar-based websites, self-guided web-based interventions, and other technology to provide clinical services to clients, some of whom they may never meet in person. The advent of this technology has produced a wide range of ethical challenges related to social workers' application of traditional social work ethics concepts: client informed consent; client privacy and confidentiality; boundaries and dual relationships; conflicts of interest; practitioner competence; records and documentation; and collegial relationships. The principal purpose of this article is to identify pertinent ethical and ethically-related risk-management issues that clinical social workers need to consider if they contemplate using this technology to assist people in need. The author addresses compelling ethical issues concerning (1) social workers' use of digital technology to communicate with clients in relatively new ways, and (2) whether social workers' use of digital technology alters the fundamental nature of the therapeutic relationship and clinicians' ability to provide clients with a truly therapeutic environment. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Ethics nationallicence Risk management nationallicence Digital technology nationallicence Distance counseling nationallicence Clinical Social Work Journal Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 43/2(2015-06-01), 120-132 0091-1674 43:2<120 2015 43 10615 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-014-0495-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-014-0495-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Reamer Frederic School of Social Work, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Clinical Social Work Journal Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 43/2(2015-06-01), 120-132 0091-1674 43:2<120 2015 43 10615