In March of 2009, a Dutch online mental health clinic sponsored an uncontrolled before- and after-study on the effectiveness of online cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). The efficacy of such psychological treatment had only been tested in controlled studies up to that point in time. The use of online therapy raises legal, ethical, and professional issues, as it is a very different method from the traditional uses of psychotherapy. However, supporters of the cause bring to attention the increase in accessibility it brings to the realm of psychology. One-thousand fifty-hundred adults were screened from a total of three-thousand three patients that Continue reading...
