The evidence to support psychotherapy, specifically cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance based therapies, for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder has been accumulating for years. Health care providers understand that benefits of such therapies, and often refer their patients on to psychologists, counsellors, social workers, and psychiatrists as they are the experts in delivering such treatment. Unfortunately, the wait times to get in to see a professional can serve as a large obstacle for patients who are suffering from anxiety at current.
How can we tackle the problem of lengthy wait times for psychological services? Do we focus on shortening the time between referral and the start of therapy? Do we seek out other treatment options that are more readily available? A group of researchers out of Sweden and the Netherlands may have found at least part of the solution to this problem!
What if we could use the internet to provide therapist-guided internet-delivered acceptance-based behavior therapy to patients in their own homes, on their own schedule? Their research study demonstrated that those enrolled in an internet therapy program reported statistically significant improvements in anxiety symptoms as well as depression symptoms after completion of the program (Dahlin et al., 2016) when compared to control participants.
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796715300723
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