Psychotherapy mediated by remote communication technologies: A meta-analytic review

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bee, Penny E ^a   Bower, Peter ^a   Lovell, Karina ^a   Gilbody, Simon ^b   Richards, David ^b   Gask, Linda ^a   Roach, Pamela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; META ANALYSIS; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELAXATION TRAINING; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TELEPHONE; TELEPSYCHIATRY; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEOCONFERENCING; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOBIA;

COGNITIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; INTERNET; PHOBIC DISORDERS;

EID: 48949094940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-8-60     Document Type: Review

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