Status of computerized cognitive behavioural therapy for adults

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 95-114

  Titov, Nickolai ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CRUFAD at St Vincents   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT); Computer assisted; Review

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; ANXIETY DISORDER; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; PANIC; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PANIC DISORDER; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34248161096     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048670601109873     Document Type: Review

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