Guided internet treatment for anxiety disorders. As effective as face-to-face therapies?

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 181, Issue , 2012, Pages 3-7

  Andersson, Gerhard ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Guided internet delivered cognitive behaviour therapy; panic disorder; social anxiety disorder; specific phobia

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURS; CONTROLLED TRIAL; PANIC DISORDER; RESEARCH GROUPS; SOCIAL ANXIETIES; SPECIFIC PHOBIA; STATISTICAL POWER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ANXIETY DISORDER; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERNET; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SELF CARE;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERNET; SELF CARE;

EID: 84872014089     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-121-2-3     Document Type: Review

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