TELEPHONE PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH ADOLESCENTS

청소년 정신 장애자에 대한 전화 정신 치료의 효용

This article describes several clinical usefullness of the telephone in psychotherapy with adolescents through case analysis by Tolchin, and discussed various management problems and some practical guidelines for therapists planning to utilize telephone psychotherapy with adolescents through literature analysis. In general, most adolescent patients in regular treatment benefit from knowing that the therapist can be reached by phone and that their call will be returned that same day. The therapist's telephone availability helps the young patient to develope a positive working alliance. Telephone psychotherapy had it's first widespread application in crisis intervention and suicide prevention. It's current uses also include enhancement of self-control in cases of self-destructive adolescents, and management of anxious, depressive, or anorexic adolescents. In addition, such widely divergent modalities of treatment as follow up of patients discharged from a psychiatric hospital, alcoholic rehabilitation programs, drug hotlines, sex counselling group therapy for visually impaired elderly, control of separation anxiety in girls, resolution of fear on the mental disorders, and helpful modality to continue psychotherapy without geographic barrier during longer periods of separation with therapist are currently available via telephone. But telephone psychotherapy is generally not suitable for more self-defensive and introverted cases, more dependent chronic callers, silent cases, test callers. the cases of telephone scatologias, the cases of intellectualized discussion, of more dependent cases calling phone in order to get attention from therapist. Telephone psychotherapy for adolescents serves as an important and useful method in the therapeutic armamentarium for this most challenging and rewarding population.

이 논문에서는 Tolchhin의 증례분석을 토대로 청소년의 전화 정신 치료의 임상적 효용성을 분석하였고 국내외 문헌분석을 통해 치료과정에서 고려해야 할 몇가지 문제점과 치료원칙에 관해 기술 하였다. 정규적으로 정신치료를 받고 있는 대부분의 청소년들은 전화로 자신의 치료자와 직접 연락이 닿을 수 있음을 알고, 전화에 대한 답변을 얻을 수 있다는 사실을 알게 될때 도움을 받을 수 있다. 또한 치료자의 전화는 젊은 환자에게 긍정적인 치료적 동맹을 맺게 해 주는데 도움을 줄 수 있다. 전화 정신 치료는 외래치료가 힘든 학생들의 치료에 있어 보조적 치료기법으로 큰 도움을 주며, 매우 도전적이고 즉각적인 응답을 바라는 집단인 청소년에 대한 치료적 장비로서 중요하고 유용한 치료기법으로 기여할 수 있다.