Dr. Keely Kolmes

This article is part of an online course: Digital and Social Media Ethics for Psychotherapists for 8 CE credits Media psychology To begin with, let’s be clear that media psychology has some competing definitions. A new generation of media psychologists is fighting to make clear distinctions between the traditional view of media psychologists: clinical psychologists [...]

Last February, the Google Buzz fiasco affected lots of people who did not want their email relationships exposed to the world. At the time, Dr. Kathleen Young and I shot a bunch of emails back and forth sharing our concerns over the situation. Dr. Young, who also maintains a professional Twitter account pointed out to [...]

This article is part of an online course: Digital and Social Media Ethics for Psychotherapists for 8 CE credits Yesterday, I posted a draft of my Social Media Policy for Psychotherapy on this blog. I also included a link on Twitter. I made it clear that this was a work in progress and asked folks [...]

I have been working on my Social Media Policy  for my private practice. This will eventually be available as a download on my Forms page and I will also distribute it to current clients. Please note that this is currently a work in progress. There may be important things to add to this policy, but [...]

This article is part of an online course: Digital and Social Media Ethics for Psychotherapists for 8 CE credits The past two days, a subsection of the Internet was ablaze with commentary related to the Facebook privacy changes that I blogged about yesterday. Some users didn’t mind the changes. Some didn’t realize they had lost [...]