Therapeutic Alliance With a Fully Automated Mobile Phone and Web-Based Intervention: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial

JMIR Mental Health

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Clarke, Janine ^a   Proudfoot, Judith ^a   Whitton, Alexis ^a   Birch, Mary Rose ^a   Boyd, Megan ^a   Parker, Gordon ^a   Manicavasagar, Vijaya ^a   Hadzi Pavlovic, Dusan ^a   Fogarty, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

computerized cognitive behavior therapy; depression; e therapy; Internet interventions; therapeutic alliance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016426207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23687959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mental.4656     Document Type: Article

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