Patient Expectations in Internet-Based Self-Help for Social Anxiety

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 203-214

  Boettcher, Johanna ^a   Renneberg, Babette ^a   Berger, Thomas ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

expectation; internet based self help; predictor; social anxiety disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANXIETY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; SELF CARE; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84883490730     PISSN: 16506073     EISSN: 16512316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16506073.2012.759615     Document Type: Article

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