The Marmot Review

The use of social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn is ubiquitous in American culture. A recent survey found that 73 percent of online adults use social networking sites (Pew Research Center, 2014). Sandra DeJong’s book Blogs and Tweets, Texting and Friending: Social Media and Online Professionalism in Health Care provides guidelines for health care professionals for how to manage their use of social media and the Internet. Topics of interest include liability and malpractice, confidentiality, privacy, conflicts of interest, and academic honesty. The book is concise and informative, and it provides many resources for professionals. This text would be an excellent reference for licensed treatment professionals in psychology and related fields as well as for graduate student trainees. Although DeJong is a psychiatrist and much of the book is geared toward medical professionals, the text would without a doubt be useful for clinical and counseling psychologists. The issues discussed apply to anyone providing treatment. In addition, there are chapters that pertain to all health providers regardless of specialization. These include chapters on academic honesty (Chapter 8), “netiquette ” (Chapter 10), an