A solution focused consideration of cyberchondria

HOLYOAKE, Dean-David and GOLDSCHMIED, Anita Z. (2021). A solution focused consideration of cyberchondria. In: Handbook of Research on Cyberchondria, Health Literacy, and the Role of Media in Society’s Perception of Medical Information. IGI Global, 153-172.

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Abstract

In this chapter, the authors consider the digital space and its technologically enabling effects on clients suffering from cyberchondria. Anonymised accounts are used to explore how, in the digital space of cyberchondria, rational people like Paul, Simon, and Tracy are broken down into assembly of compulsive behaviours and anxiety, always with an escalating nature. Using solution focused techniques like ‘the miracle question', ‘exception seeking', ‘problem free talk', and ‘detailing scales', the authors share their experiences of the murder and snake oil that is cyberchondria. They review how the literal and hypothetical ideals of solution focused practice offer new perspectives to the treatment of cyberchondria as clients require not logic but hope to retake control of their post-cyberchondria recovery.

Item Type:	Book Section
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8630-3.ch009
Page Range:	153-172
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Elements
Depositing User:	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited:	31 Mar 2023 13:21
Last Modified:	31 Mar 2023 13:21
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/31721

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