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Problematic Internet use in relation to personality traits and early maladaptive patterns of net users
Abstract
This article deals with the phenomenon of Problematic Internet Use among adolescents and people in the stage of early adulthood. The concept based on the diathesis model of stress assumes the existence of factors conducive to the occurrence of this phenomenon. Such factors are postulated as personality traits and early maladaptive schemas that may be a threatening factor as relatively persistent over the course of life. An important point is that the Problematic Internet Use takes into account the preference of on-line contacts apart from the real ones, negative consequences, the aspect of compulsiveness and self-regulation of mood through the network.

Ethical dimensions of conducting online therapy: the analysis of selected websites
Abstract
The development of online psychological counselling brings new ethical challenges, related to the use of advanced technologies in traditional psychological tasks. The aim of the article is to present two studies of websites dedicated to provide online psychological counselling services (N = 43, 80), in which the degree of implementation of ethical principles was verified. The results confirmed that not all ethical requirements are implemented to a sufficient degree. The article also presents proposals for actions aimed at increasing ethical awareness of practitioners and changes necessary to introduce in Polish codes of ethic.