Exploring hope and expectations in the youth mental health online counselling environment

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Highlights：

• Online clients report high distress and low hope, but have high expectations.

• Hope was strongly related to both psychological distress and life satisfaction.

• The relationship between hope and expectations was extremely weak.

• No differences in symptoms were found due to incongruent hopes and expectations.

• The number of sessions attended had no impact upon client hope or expectations.

摘要

•Online clients report high distress and low hope, but have high expectations.•Hope was strongly related to both psychological distress and life satisfaction.•The relationship between hope and expectations was extremely weak.•No differences in symptoms were found due to incongruent hopes and expectations.•The number of sessions attended had no impact upon client hope or expectations.

论文关键词：Internet,Online counselling,Young people,Mental health,Hope,Expectations

论文评审过程：Received 20 March 2014, Revised 10 July 2015, Accepted 14 August 2015, Available online 14 September 2015, Version of Record 14 September 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.08.009