[pt] Este estudo tem por objetivo investigar de que forma a inserção da psicoterapia mediada pelo computador, no Brasil, repercute no meio profissional e como os psicólogos clínicos de diferentes tendências se posicionam em face dessa modalidade. Através de um conjunto de entrevistas realizadas com dois grupos de psicoterapeutas - que atuam tanto em consultório quanto por meio da Internet -, constatou-se que as opiniões se dividem em relação aos diferentes aspectos pesquisados: a viabilidade de transposição do seu trabalho do consultório para o computador, a percepção sobre a clientela virtual e o seu interesse e motivação para atuar na rede mundial de computadores. Ao discutir o assunto, busca-se compreender o que rege as opiniões favoráveis e desfavoráveis relacionadas à difusão dessa inusitada modalidade de atendimento psicológico no país. / [en] This study investigates how computer psychotherapy is accepted and adopted in brazilian professional psychological clinic and how different approaches see this practice. Planned interviews were applied to two groups of psychotherapists, concerning those who work directly with patients and those who work with computer in their clinic practice. This study aims to detected how is the perception of their virtual clients; the adequacy of this modality to their clinical work and their interest and motivation using this kind of therapy. Discussing the results we intend to better understand their opinions related to the diffusing of online psychotherapy at the present moment in our brazilian reality.

While online video communication has become a part of many people's lives, it still lacks an important aspect of human interaction – eye contact. Conventional technology does not provide the ability to share eye contact online. The NUNA machine is a unique communication unit that enables this shared virtual eye contact (VEC). The aim of this study was to explore how people experience VEC in a virtual therapeutic setting, specifically in a Motivational Interview (MI). This experience was specifically juxtapositioned to an in-person setting as it provides eye contact as a natural part of the conversation. Research questions included how participants would experience eye contact in a MI setting in 1) a video conference with shared eye contact and 2) an in-person conversation, how participants would make sense of the perceived differences between the settings, and which value participants saw in VEC. In the MI, participants first spoke to each other using the NUNAs and then seamlessly continued their conversation in-person. After this exposure, they took part in qualitative interviews sharing their experience and how they made sense of it. These qualitative interviews were then analyzed by conducting qualitative content analysis. In total, 10 university students, approximately in their 20s, were interviewed. The results suggest that VEC acts as an antagonist to the disembodiment that is inherent to virtual interactions by providing connection and increasing the degree of realness with which the vis-à-vis is perceived. It further revealed that the NUNA setting provided a focused environment in which participants felt like they could work on their emotions and feel validated by and committed to their vis-à-vis. Thus, VEC may strengthen therapeutic alliance and be a promising tool for online psychotherapy by providing a higher degree of realness as would be natural for in-person conversations. / Videokommunikation online har blivit en del av många människors liv, men det saknas fortfarande en viktig aspekt av mänsklig interaktion - ögonkontakt. Konventionell teknik ger inte möjlighet att ha ögonkontakt online. NUNA-maskinen är en unik kommunikationsenhet som möjliggör denna delade virtuella ögonkontakt (VEC). Syftet med den här studien var att undersöka hur människor upplever VEC i en virtuell terapeutisk miljö, särskilt i en motiverande intervju (MI). Den här upplevelsen var särskilt jämförbar med en personlig miljö eftersom ögonkontakt är en naturlig del av samtalet. Forskningsfrågorna omfattade hur deltagarna skulle uppleva ögonkontakt i en MI-miljö i 1) en videokonferens med ögonkontakt och 2) ett personligt samtal, hur deltagarna skulle förstå de upplevda skillnaderna mellan miljöerna och vilket värde deltagarna såg i VEC. I MI-miljön talade deltagarna först med varandra med hjälp av NUNA och fortsatte sedan sömlöst sitt samtal i en personlig konversation. Efter denna exponering deltog de i kvalitativa intervjuer där de delade med sig av sina erfarenheter och hur de tolkade dem. Dessa kvalitativa intervjuer analyserades sedan med hjälp av kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Sammanlagt intervjuades 10 universitetsstudenter, ungefär i 20-årsåldern. Resultaten tyder på att VEC fungerar som en antagonist till den kroppslöshet som är inneboende i virtuella interaktioner genom att tillhandahålla anslutning och öka graden av realitet med vilken motparten uppfattas. Vidare framkom att NUNA-miljön skapade en fokuserad miljö där deltagarna kände att de kunde bearbeta sina känslor och känna sig bekräftade av och engagerade i sin samtalspartner. VEC kan således stärka den terapeutiska alliansen och vara ett lovande verktyg för psykoterapi på nätet genom att ge en högre grad av realitet, vilket vore naturligt vid personliga samtal.