E-cards are a quick, easy and effective way to reach the youth you are working with. Delivered in a medium that many of today's youth are very familiar with, using e-cards before or after meetings with youth can be a great way to reinforce tools, coping strategies or other useful concepts you have discussed together.
Have you found a tool or game on mindyourmindpro.ca that you'd like the youth you work with to visit prior to your next meeting, or to remind them of a coping tool that you found could be helpful in between meetings? Send an e-card to keep the lines of communication open, and to work with youth in their own environment, accessible from anywhere they may be.
Here are links that can help you decide if e-cards will work for you and the youth you work with.
1. The Outline of Ethical Guidelines around the use of electronic media for providing psychological services published be the Canadian Psychological Association can be found at the following link: http://www.cpa.ca/aboutcpa/boardofdirectors/committees/ethics/ethicalguidelines/
2. The following article describes areas such as terminology, and access issues, as well as benefits to using online therapeutic tools including increased accessibility, the use of written word for expression, fewer time restrictions, increased affordability and flexibility. This briefing published by the Australian Institute of Family Studies can be found at the following link: http://www.aifs.gov.au/afrc/pubs/briefing/briefing15.html#benefits
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