A Solution Focused Consideration of Cyberchondria

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Author(s): Dean-David Holyoake (University of Wolverhampton, UK)and Anita Z Goldschmied (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 20
Source title: Handbook of Research on Cyberchondria, Health Literacy, and the Role of Media in Society’s Perception of Medical Information
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Hacer Aker (Selcuk University, Turkey)and Mary Aiken (University of East London, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8630-3.ch009

Keywords: Digital Literacy / Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science / Mass Communications

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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.

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