Guided Internet-Based Treatments in Psychiatry

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lindefors, Nils (Editor), Andersson, Gerhard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Psychiatry.; Psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Psychology, general.

This book provides a practically oriented overview of internet-based treatments in psychiatry and mental health care, which represent a relatively new research area and offer a novel clinical approach. The principal focus is on internet-based cognitive behavior therapy, as this is currently the best...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (including definitions and history)
• Depression
• Panic disorder and agoraphobia
• Social anxiety disorder
• Specific phobia
• Generalised anxiety disorder
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder
• PTSD
• Insomnia
• Health anxiety (Illness anxiety disorder)
• Eating disorders- Substance abuse
• Pathological gambling
• ICBT with children and adolescents
• ICBT with older people
• Future directions and new technologies.