Title
Technology and language use: Implications for Computer Mediated Therapy
Abstract
This article shows the relationships among computerization, cognition, and language style. Specifically important is that computerization is demonstrated to shape language and cognition in a way that diminishes the role interpretation plays in knowledge acquisition. This portrayal of knowledge has significant consequences for computer mediated therapy. That is, behavior is divorced from its social or interpretive context and thus little insight is gained into a client's problems. Diagnoses, simply put, are made to conform to technical criteria. Behavior is thus classified neatly but, most often, in an irrelevant manner. This article is based on Murphy's and Pardeck's research into the impact of technology on education and the delivery of social services. © 1988, SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. All rights reserved.
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167888281007
Publication Date
1-1-1988
Recommended Citation
Murphy, John W., and John T. Pardeck. "Technology and language use: Implications for computer mediated therapy." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 28, no. 1 (1988): 120-134.
Journal Title
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
