Development and evaluation of a scale assessing therapist fidelity to guidelines for delivering therapist-assisted Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 447-461

  Hadjistavropoulos, Heather D ^a   Schneider, Luke H ^a   Klassen, Kristen ^a   Dear, Blake F ^b   Titov, Nickolai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

anxiety; depression; Internet delivered cognitive behaviour therapy; Therapist fidelity; therapist assistance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; E-MAIL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRAISE; PSYCHOEDUCATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; ANXIETY DISORDER; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; DEPRESSION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; PROCEDURES; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEEDBACK; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INTERNET; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESSES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85051106805     PISSN: 16506073     EISSN: 16512316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16506073.2018.1457079     Document Type: Article

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