Class Telepresence and Teleconsultation

This Curriculum Unit focuses on the concept of telepresence and its application in telepsychology and technology-mediated relationships. The main goals are: understanding the definition of telepresence, identifying and recognizing telepresence measurement tools in telepsychology, and developing skills to analyze verbal and non-verbal interactions during remote interviews. Content includes the history of telepresence, virtual reality immersion, telepresence assessment tools, discourse analysis and telepsychotherapy interactions, and qualitative and statistical data analysis methods.

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1. Introduction: History of telepresence  2. Immersion and telepresence:  2.1. Immersion and telepresence in VR 2.2.Immersion, telepresence and positive technology  3: Tools to work with telepresence:  3.1. Telepresence scales  3.2. Telepresence grid  4. Conversation observation and interaction analysis in telepsychotherapy  4.1. Discourse and conversation analysis  4.2. Interaction analysis in telepsychotherapy 5. Thematic discourse analysis 5.1. Methodological review  5.2.Statistical methods  5.3. Example of qualitative methods: Nvivo 

The expositive method will be used to allow students to understand the concept of telepresence (O1) and to know telepresence measurement tools that exist and to see how they are used in the context of telepsychology (O3).  The active method will be used, with tutoring support provided by the teacher, while performing tasks associated with methods of speech analysis, particularly with the use of specialised software (O3).

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