An online guided ACT intervention for enhancing the psychological wellbeing of university students: A randomized controlled clinical trial

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 78, Issue , 2016, Pages 30-42

  Räsänen, Panajiota ^a   Lappalainen, Päivi ^a   Muotka, Joona ^a   Tolvanen, Asko ^a   Lappalainen, Raimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acceptance and commitment therapy; Depression; Online interventions; Stress; University students; Wellbeing

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINDFULNESS; ONLINE SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARALLEL DESIGN; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF REPORT; STRESS; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; WELLBEING; ANXIETY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; ETIOLOGY; HEALTH PROMOTION; INTERNET; MENTAL STRESS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY; ADULT; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MINDFULNESS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84957900798     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2016.01.001     Document Type: Article

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