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Virtual vs face-to-face: Which one wins?
Do your clients tell you they’d rather text than talk? Do they spend hours on Facebook and only minutes each day in positive, face-to- face family conversations? Do your clients find their friends in online forums to be more accepting and less judgmental than their “real life” friends? Do your clients enjoy the lives they live as avatars in virtual worlds more so than their lives in the physical “real” world? Therapists who serve tech-savvy clients say, “Yes!”
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