1st Edition

Internet-Delivered CBT Distinctive Features

By Gerhard Andersson Copyright 2025
194 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Internet-Delivered CBT: Distinctive Features offers a concise overview of how internet-delivered CBT and related methods (such as smartphones) can be used as single interventions as well as part of regular CBT in the form of “blended treatments”. The book also describes different applications and adaptions of internet treatments for different target groups (young persons, adults and older... Read more

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Part I: Background, techniques and assumptions

1. Introduction

2. Self-help treatments and bibliotherapy

3. Computerized CBT

4. The internet and its role for CBT

5. How to set up a treatment platform

6. Internet-based assessment procedures

7. Use of smartphone apps, wearables, gamification, virtual reality and cognitive bias modification

8. Video therapy

9. Specific assumptions and theories

10. ICBT as education

11. How to develop new treatments

12. How to evaluate treatments

13. Adaptions and the role of culture

14. Different ways to support

15. The treatment process in research trials and in the clinic

 

Part II: Applications and practice of ICBT

16. Therapist behaviour and the role of the alliance

17. Internet treatments for anxiety: children and adolescents

18. Internet treatments for anxiety: adults

19. Internet treatments for anxiety: older adults

20. Internet treatments for depression: children and adolescents

21. Internet treatments for depression: adults

22. Internet treatments for depression: older adults

23. Transdiagnostic and tailored internet treatments

24. Problem-focused internet treatments I

25. Problem-focused internet treatments II

26. Eating disorders, insomnia, stress, sexual health and neurological conditions

27. Somatic disorders

28. Other treatment orientations

29. Experiences of clients and clinicians

30. Future directions and concluding remarks.

 

References

Index

Biography

Gerhard Andersson is full professor in clinical psychology and a world leading researcher in the field of internet-delivered psychological treatments. He has published many studies and books and is among the most cited researchers in clinical psychology in the world. He is also a trained CBT psychotherapist and practices as a clinical psychologist.