Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: An e-Mental Health Approach to Depression and Anxiety

by Nazanin Alavi, Mohsen Omrani

Overview

This book aims to provide the clinicians with details of online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to facilitate care delivery for patients struggle with depression and anxiety. Chapters cover some of the most fundamental concepts for successful treatment, including experiments, action plans evidence, and the guidelines for managing, thoughts, feelings, and other key concerns. Designed to be a reader-friendly guide, each chapter opens with a summary of the content and a recap of concepts covered in previous sections, making this highly functional for individual chapter or whole book use. Each chapter also includes recommended tables and chart to facilitate the documentation of each recommended session, making this highly practical resource a vital tool for those who treat patients suffering from these particular mental health concerns.

Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a unique guide to practical Mental e-Mental Health approaches that is valuable to psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, social workers, and all clinicians who wish to treat anxiety and depression patients remotely.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319991504
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	12/27/2018
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	165
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nazanin Alavi, MD, FRCPC
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
University of Toronto

Mohsen Omrani, MD, PhD
Brain Health Institute (BHI)
Rutgers University
Co-founder at OPTT Inc

Table of Contents

· What is depression? What is anxiety?

· What is 5 part model and how can it be helpful?

· What is the connection between our Thoughts, Feelings, Behaviour, Physical Reactions & Environment.

· Strategies that can be used is stressful situations

· Understand and Rate our Feelings and Thought Record

· What are Automatic thoughts

· Activity scheduling

· What is Evidence and how can it help us rate our thoughts and feeling?

· What is alternative and balanced thinking?

· Experiments

· Action plans

· Review

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Gary B Kaniuk, PsyD (Cermak Health Services)
Description: This book details how clinicians can provide cognitive behavioral therapy to patients using an e-learning approach.
Purpose: The aim is to "provide clinicians with details on how to design and deliver materials to effectively help patients." The book presents a step-by-step approach and includes practical case examples for addressing depression and anxiety.
Audience: The intended audience includes "psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, social workers, and all clinicians who wish to treat anxiety and depression patients remotely." The book meets the needs of its intended audience. There is little information about the authors. Nazanin Alavi is affiliated with the University of Toronto and Mohsen Omrani is on staff at Rutgers University.
Features: The book notes that with gaps in the ability of clients to access care, online services can provide needed education and treatment. The authors believe that CBT can be delivered effectively in this manner. They present a 12-step approach with structured sessions, which therapists must individualize for each client. The sessions are 60 minutes each and the client is given a presentation of about 30 pages. Clients are given information about dealing with crises outside of sessions as well as homework, a foundational part of treatment that extends the session into the real world. Clinicians provide feedback so that clients can learn the CBT model. Clients have to learn the connection between thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and physiological reactions, as well as coping strategies such as deep breathing. Activity logs are used to track weekly events and assess mood during the events. A thought record helps clients break down a stressful situation to its core components. Clients identify automatic thoughts, especially "hot thoughts" in these situations. Clinicians help clients look for evidence to support or refute these "hot thoughts" and develop alternative ways of thinking about a situation. Experiments are conducted during the session in order to test hypotheses. At the end of the session, action plans are initiated. As treatment comes to an end, clinicians summarize the model and the progress made, along with future goals.
Assessment: This book is easy to read and practical, providing a step-by-step, e-learning approach to addressing depression and anxiety with CBT.

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