Research
shows online therapy, including online counselling, is an effective means of support, and it is often as effective as face - to - face counselling.
Studies have
shown online therapy can be effective in treating anxiety, depression and eating disorders, Newman said.
Most studies
show online therapy is just as effective as face - to - face therapy for many problems, though some evidence shows people who use online therapy tend to drop out of treatment more often, Newman said.
Not exact matches
This episode highlights a growing challenge for patients: how to temper enthusiasm for experimental
therapies, now widely and effectively marketed through personal testimonials posted
online, until evidence
shows that the treatments are likely to do more good than harm.
Now results from the study, published
online by the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics,
show that
online group
therapy can be just as effective as face - to - face treatment, although the pace of recovery may be slower.
The new findings, published
online in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics,
show that combining rapamycin with a gene
therapy approach enhanced the animals» ability to summon immune cells called CD8 + T cells to kill tumor cells directly.
They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest
online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity
therapy» that's
showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.
; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest
online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity
therapy» that's
showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.
XenZone's Kooth service offers mental health support for children and young people; it now has over 114,500 registered users in over 40 local authority areas XenZone, pioneer of
online counselling and support services, has released figures today
showing a steep rise in demand for Kooth, its digital
therapy service for children and young people, -LSB-...]
Six months after their first meeting those who had received
online therapy continued to
show improvement, in direct contrast to the in - person group.
After eight weeks those receiving
online therapy showed greater improvement.
XenZone, pioneer of
online counselling and support services, has released figures today
showing a steep rise in demand for Kooth, its digital
therapy service for children and young people, as it is commissioned by more clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and Local Authorities throughout England.
This website offers blogs and articles written with information about depression that is relevant to this going on today such as tv
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Research so far on the relationships between
online therapy clients and their therapists
shows those relationships to be as strong as the bonds forged in person, which bodes well for
online work.
Online therapy has also been
shown to be useful for specific behavioral change, like quitting smoking or losing weight.
Research
shows that
online therapy may also be an efficient way to provide PTSD treatment to a large group of individuals.