Clinicians' attitudes towards the use of computerized cognitive behaviour therapy (cCBT) with children and adolescents

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 545-560

  Stallard, Paul ^a   Richardson, Thomas ^a   Velleman, Sophie ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adolescents; attitudes; CBT; children; clinicians; Computer

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHILD; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DATA COLLECTION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957278515     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: 14691833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465810000421     Document Type: Article

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