Articles Tagged "Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)"

Abstract This paper reports the latest results from a series of studies investigating predictors of outcomes for users of an online, self-guided Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) platform. Each disorder-specific module on the platform consists of lessons with educational slides that include interactive exercises. This study investigates the number of slides completed for each lesson and […]

Introduction Estimating the value of medical and behavioral services has received an increasing amount of attention in recent decades (Happell, 2008; Rocco, 2019; Porter & Teisberg, 2004; Porter & Teisberg, 2006; Porter, 2010, Teisberg et al., 2020). Porter and Teisberg (2006) compared methods for evaluating value in their book Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition […]

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This is article part of a series of articles exploring methods for improving the results for the online program.  This article investigates whether completion of home assignments is associated with greater improvement on well researched self-report outcome questionnaires for adults utilizing an online self-directed cognitive behavioral therapy program. Results suggest that completion of homework assignments […]

Research has shown that digital therapeutics (DTx) platforms using tools derived from therapies like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) promote clinical change (Brown et al., 2020).  Decades of research also demonstrate the importance of social supports and well as the relationship with the therapist in psychotherapy outcomes (Barker & Pistrang,  2002; Lindfors et al., 2019; Wampold […]

The past decade has witnessed the rise of digital therapeutics. This multi-billion-dollar healthcare segment provides consumer self-help tools with behavioral health as a dominant focus. A number of companies offer these programs, including Silver Cloud, Ginger, and Spring Health. The company studied here, Learn to Live, has self-paced digital modules for stress, depression, anxiety, and […]

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Mar 24, 2022

Who Am I María Celeste Airaldi is Director of the Sensorium Institute, in Paraguay, a center specialized in psychology, and is a professor at the Catholic University "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción", also in Paraguay; she is also a Level 2 Faculty Trainer at the Albert Ellis Institute in New York. She was trained as […]

Abstract This article examined patients’ change in outcome expectation across cognitive-behavior therapy for generalized anxiety disorder, as well as participant factors that are associated with both pretreatment outcome expectation and expectation change. Findings: On average, patients’ outcome expectation becomes more positive over time. Moreover, the degree of such change is influenced by several baseline and early treatment patient factors […]

Collateral work with parents is a widely adopted practice among child psychotherapists. In the early days of child analysis, parents were not necessarily involved in the child’s treatment, it is now widely believed that work with parents can enhance the effectiveness of child psychotherapy treatment, enabling the changes that take place within the therapy room […]

This paper builds upon prior analyses of the effectiveness of an online self-guided cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) program. Learn to Live, Inc. provides a digital behavioral healthcare platform with a no-cost option to all users to get personalized guidance and support from a non-licensed coach.  Coaching was found to result in users staying engaged with […]

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The purpose of the current study is to explore if the addition of personalized coaching improves outcomes of an iCBT program, as reported by Brown et al., 2020. The Learn to Live iCBT program offers several modes of enhanced personal coaching support, which is optionally available to the user. Individuals can get coaching support via […]