No talking, just writing! efficacy of an internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy with exposure and response prevention in obsessive compulsive disorder

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 165-175

  Herbst, Nirmal ^a   Voderholzer, Ulrich ^a,b   Thiel, Nicola ^a   Schaub, Ronja ^a   Knaevelsrud, Christine ^c   Stracke, Silke ^a   Hertenstein, Elisabeth ^a   Nissen, Christoph ^a   Külz, Anne Katrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Schoen Clinic Roseneck Prien   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive behavioral therapy; Internet therapy; Online therapy; Psychotherapy; Telecare

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DSM-IV; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERNET BASED WRITING THERAPY; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF REPORT; WRITING; YALE BROWN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SCALE; AGED; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTERVENTION STUDY; MENTAL PATIENT; PREVENTION STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TELEMEDICINE; YOUNG ADULT;

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TELEMEDICINE; WRITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897967246     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: 14230348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000357570     Document Type: Article

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