Internet Interventions for Mental Health and Addictions: Current Findings and Future Directions

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Cunningham, John A ^a,b   Gulliver, Amelia ^a   Farrer, Lou ^a   Bennett, Kylie ^a   Carron Arthur, Bradley ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Anxiety; Depression; Internet interventions; Review; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERVENTION STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PANIC; PHOBIA; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PROCEDURES; TELEMEDICINE; TRENDS;

HUMANS; INTERNET; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84912544784     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-014-0521-5     Document Type: Review

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