New Jersey Society of Clinical Social Workers

Dr. Frankfeldt will discuss the dilemmas posed by ubiquitous modern digital communication and how they impact treatment. Seemingly innocuous texts and emails break the treatment frame in ways that telephone calls never did, due to their quietly interruptive nature. Modern texting practice invites the expectation of an immediate response. Digital communications exemplify a potential breaking of the frame and encourage enactments, requiring subtle, carefully considered treatment decisions. This will be a didactic presentation and an opportunity for the group to discuss and work on these issues as they have arisen in our practices.