Abstract

GUTIERREZ-CORTEZ, Juliana  and  ZAPATA-GIRALDO, Laura Victoria. Virtual therapy for family: adaptations, opportunities, and limitations. Intervention with Colombian families in times of confinement. Prospectiva [online]. 2023, n.35, e20612367.  Epub Dec 22, 2022. ISSN 0122-1213.  https://doi.org/10.25100/prts.v0i35.12367.

This article addresses the results of the research "Virtual therapy for family care in times of confinement", carried out in 2021. Its objective was to understand the process carried out through virtual care, by family therapists who accompanied relational conflicts. intensified from the confinement by COVID-19. The research is of a qualitative type, with a hermeneutical historical approach, an interpretative collective case strategy, and techniques focused on the documentary review and semi-structured interview. The participants were six family therapists of Colombian nationality. The information was interpreted through content analysis. The findings describe the virtual care process carried out by family therapists. The recurring elements were: the impact of confinement on family relationships, methodology, techniques, and tools used by family therapists in virtual care, adaptation to virtuality, the interaction of the therapeutic system in virtual care, possibilities, limitations, and recommendations for virtual care. It is concluded that the therapeutic process carried out virtually did not present a qualitative disadvantage concerning face-to-face meetings. The practicality of bimodal care became the new normality of doing therapy.

Keywords : Family; Therapeutic process; Virtual therapy; Pandemic; Confinement.

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